title: Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life
author:  Edna O'Brien 
description: Celebrated novelist and biographer O'Brien (The Country Girls trilogy) is a keen cicerone to the strange and insatiable love life of the lame poet with the features of Adonis. Drawing on Marchand's three-volume biography of Lord Byron, while adding to this her immersion in letters and journals, O'Brien presents a figure we can see all-around. With a perennial worry about his weight, not to mention his right clubfoot, Byron, O'Brien says, compensated by indulging in homosexual relationships, most notably with John Edleston, and heterosexual trysts. Indeed, Byron always seemed to be in love and on the run, traversing Europe from Spain and Portugal to Albania and Greece. His travels and his loves inspired <i>Manfred</i>, <i>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage</i> and, above all, <i>Don Juan.</i> Of interest as well are Byron's hot-and-cold relations with publisher John Murray, the Shelleys (who were largely appalled by Byron's lifestyle) and Dr. Polidori, whose novel on the vampyre would inspire an industry. At times a bit breathless, this compact life sets the emotional background for a poet who today is more famous for his life story than his work. 8 pages of illus. <i>(June 15)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: **Seduced by the Stowaway**
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  **Ann Mikal**
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  **Heart’s Treasure**
  
   **Book 1**
  
    
  
    
  
  Marisa Villeneuve is facing what is probably her greatest life challenge: an
  impending forced marriage orchestrated by her stepfather who wants to make
  money from the match. But Marisa is nothing if not determined, independent and
  feisty. Rather than giving in to her stepfather’s demand, she runs away from
  home and boards a ship on route to the faraway colonies in the Americas – as a
  stowaway! But it is here, aboard the ship, that she finds that she must make
  the most important decision of her life – a decision that could affect her for
  the rest of her life.
  
    
  
  Byron Treasure is captain of a merchant ship heading for a British colony in
  the west, a voyage which he has taken so many times he’s stopped counting.
  This time, though, things are different. Halfway along the journey his world
  is tossed into a tornado when he finds a stowaway aboard his ship. But that’s
  