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Here's kind of a fun one ... Described as "bright and tight" (definitely not the worst compliment I've received)

I hadn't thought of my books as collector's items ... just another reason why I love Amazon.com:

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HER NORMAN CONQUEROR by MALIA MARTIN~OOP~VHTF~ 1ST ED.~ MINT!!!(Q) Minimum Bid:  $6.00 (convert this currency) Description:  HER NORMAN CONQUEROR by MALIA MARTIN ~This is an OUT OF PRINT VERY HARD TO FIND Collectible 1ST EDITION PAPERBACK Romance ~This book is in MINT condition. ~******Mint=Like New... read more Closes In:  1 days, 19:56:50 Number of Bids:  0 (starting bid: $6.00) High Bidder:  No bids. Seller:  ziviski: (659)   Bidder: kela Enter your maximum bid: $ How bidding works

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HER NORMAN CONQUEROR by MALIA MARTIN ~This is an OUT OF PRINT VERY HARD TO FIND Collectible 1ST EDITION PAPERBACK Romance ~This book is in MINT condition. ~******Mint=Like New** Great=Minor Spine Creasing** Good= Spine Creasing (These are like you'd find in a used book store only the better!)** All my books are clean, bright and tight! NO marks, unless stated!! ******

                  November 18th, 1998

Free Press Zones editor Marcia Abramson's  article about a new breed of romance heroines.  Aleene of Seabreeze Castle (from Her Norman Conqueror) is the marquee example of the new "smart, sassy women" appearing in today's romance novels.
 
 

• • ROMANCE: 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' IS FULL OF KISSES,
    HUGS AND LAUGHTER FOR THESE SMART, SASSY
    WOMEN

    It has been the year of the contemporary heroine in romance novels. Even the
    time-traveling has mostly been one-way: All the knights and pirates are heading in this
    direction. And whether it's 1998, 1812 or 1066, all the heroines are feisty, funny and
    thoroughly modern. Nobody's going to rip their bodices.

    Lady Aleene, the heroine of Malia Martin's "Her Norman Conqueror" (Avon $5.99), is
    known for her kindness to the old, the ailing, the half-witted. Aleene must find
    someone to marry fast -- befoe ing Harold forces her to wed evil lord Aethregard, who shares none of her ideals.

    That's when a gorgeous, but apparently addled, poacher gets caught in her forest.  Instead of stringing him up, she marries him.  When he seems frightened, she comforts him -- and discovers that in some departments, he's more than fully functional.

    ... Aleene is a real forward-thinker for the 11th Century

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AOL's Romantic Fiction Forum named Her Norman Conqueror  1998's "Best Historical Debut Novel"
 

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