

The book was a success, as have been the forty-nine novels that followed. Lindsey wrote her first book, Captive Bride, in 1977 "on a whim". After her husband's death, Lindsey moved to Maine and did not remarry. The marriage continued, the couple residing in Hawaii and producing three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who have made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Bruce Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. That year, her family moved to Hawaii, likely to honor his wish. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, but he died in 1964. The Howard family moved about a great deal when she was young due to her father's military career. Army, stationed in West Germany, where she was born. Her father was Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. Her mother was Wanda Donaldson Howard, a personnel management specialist. Johanna Helen Howard was born on March 10, 1952, in Frankfurt, West Germany. All of her books reached the New York Times bestseller list, many reaching No. 1. Mostly just a whole lot of rape.Johanna Helen Lindsey (née Howard, Ma– October 27, 2019) was an American writer of historical romance novels. I honestly don't even think there was even a shade of an actual plot.

It's essentially an entire novel of the hero of the story forcing himself on the heroine and insisting she must like it. In FACT, I will purposefully wait until you're asleep and have sex with you so that when you wake up you'll be so lost to pleasure you'll be inCAPABLE of saying no." Except then she DOES say no, and attempts to get away, and he's like LA LA LET's KEEP GOING. It's basically just a few hundred pages of, "I married you and so I get to have sex with you. I guess I lived in hope that somehow, someway something would justify the rest of the book. After the delightful first one with William Wallace, and then the super boring one that ended up being a DNF, and then the third venture, the fourth venture is one that actually made me vaguely nauseated in parts? WHY did I even bother finishing is the greater question? I mean, who DOESN'T want to read a spot (or five) of marital rape in the morning? I sort of feel like this weird project of reading and then reviewing a bunch of romance novels is backfiring on my greatly.
