Clearly, Sheridan’s new ‘guest’ is lady of quality.

When he discovers his wily pickpocket is a woman, now gravely injured, he takes his flame haired attacker under his wing. New York City.Wyatt Grantham, Viscount Sheridan, is stunned to find three young boys at his door, demanding he right the wrongs of an incident that occurred earlier that evening when he thwarted a determined thief. However, readers who like books with solid character depth and interesting storylines may like it. The violence is not graphic.īottom Line: Midnight Princess/Her Defiant Heart is a very dark book and won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. Violence: Assault, attempted rape, battery, sodomy, and murder all occur in the book. They don’t get anywhere near erotica, but they do explore what the characters in the scenes are feeling and can be very emotional and romantic. The supporting characters only exist to advance Jenny and Christian.

Goodman’s work I find it interesting, but I can’t say i like her characters. This makes Midnight Princess an interesting, compelling book, and Jenny and Christian are interesting, developed characters.ĭownside: Even though I found the book compelling, I can’t say that I truly liked either Jenny or Christian. Many of her heroes and heroines have significant trauma that they are trying to work through, and Jenny and Christian are in that category. Goodman is a licensed therapist, and this imbues her writing. Jenny and Christian marry and have their Happily Ever After. The villains trying to kill her are stopped.Christian gets a major-but very pleasant-Christmas surprise. In the end, Christian rescues Jenny from a perilous situation. We also learn about Christian’s trauma and that Jenny has three people who want her dead. “Jane Doe” has a real name it’s Jenny Holland, the heroine of the book, and as the book continues we learn more about the traumas she's suffered in her life. He feels sympathy for her and decides to help her. Christian Marshall, the hero of the book, one of the eponymous titular characters and publisher of the New York Chronicle newspaper, is at a hospital for people experiencing emotional distress watching one of the “patients”, a woman known as Jane Doe, being treated. The book starts in New York City, December 1866. This review is of the original print book.

Published by Zebra/Kensington, November 1989, the book was later reissued as “Her Defiant Heart” (This series connects to Ms. This review is of “Midnight Princess”, book #1 in the “Marshall Brothers” series by Jo Goodman, a pseudonym used by Joanne Dobrzanski.

Midnight Princess by Jo Goodman