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Savage Possession Kindle Edition

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A sweeping tale of love’s triumph over tragedy and treachery in frontier Australia.
A mistaken identity opens the door for Martin Mulvaney to take his revenge on the granddaughter of his mortal enemy.

An old Scottish feud, a love that should never have happened, and a series of extraordinary coincidences traps two lovers in a family feud that threatens to destroy their love, if not their lives.

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Margaret Tanner is a multi-published Australian author. She loves delving into the pages of history as she carries out research for her historical romance novels, and prides herself on being historically accurate. No book is too old or tattered for her to trawl through, no museum too dusty, or cemetery too overgrown. Many of her novels have been inspired by true events, with one being written around the hardships and triumphs of her pioneering ancestors in frontier Australia. As part of her research she has visited the World War 1 battlefields in France and Belgium, a truly poignant experience. She won the 2007 and 2009 Author of the Year at AussieAuthors.com. A Rose In-No-Man's Land won an un-published manuscript award. Her novel Frontier Wife won the Best Historical Romance Novel at the 2010 Readers Favorite Award, and another novel, Wild Oats was a 2011 Finalist in the EPIC awards. In 2012, an unpublished manuscript was short listed in English publisher, ChocLit's, Find an Australian Star, competition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008EL0FTI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Books We Love Ltd. (June 24, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 24, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2730 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 370 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1482709813

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MARGARET TANNER - DRAMA FILLED SWEET WESTERN HISTORICAL ROMANCE

PLEASE NOTE: All of Margaret's stories are written by her with no AI involvement whatsoever.

Margaret Tanner is an award winning, international best-selling author of over 170 books.

She now writes only Sweet Western Historical Romance with Christian elements and lots of adventure.

In the past she has written a few Contemporary Romance and Historical Romance, and these do have a little 'heat' in them.

Margaret, who hails from Australia, has had many jobs throughout her working career – Army Reservist, Government Worker, Postwoman (On several occasions she has ridden along with a dog hanging off the back of her leg), An Army Major’s Secretary, Medical Audio-typist, Electoral Office Worker, Doctor’s Receptionist and Primary School Principal’s Secretary.

She loves delving into the pages of history as she carries out research for her historical novels. No book is too old or tattered for her to trawl through, no museum too dusty, or website too hard to navigate. Many of her novels have been inspired by true events, with one being written around the hardships and triumphs of her pioneering ancestors in frontier Australia. She once spent a couple of hours in an old goal cell so she could feel the chilling cold and fear

She has now fallen in love with writing Western Historical novellas, and found it an easy transition. Frontier Australia and frontier America, have many similarities - isolated communities living in a harsh, unforgiving environment, a large single male population, and a lack of marriageable women.

Her stories are drama laden. Her heroes hide behind a rough exterior. They are tough men who are prepared to face danger and overwhelming odds for the women they love. Her heroines are brave, resourceful women willing to endure hardship and danger in the untamed West, if it means they can win the heart of the men they love.

She has always loved Westerns, soaking up all the Western TV shows and movies when she was young. Bonanza was her all-time favourite show. Little Joe Cartwright was her hero. Western Author, Zane Grey was her favourite author at that time.

Margaret is married and has three grown up sons, and two gorgeous little granddaughters.

Outside of her family and friends, writing is her passion.

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AWARDS:

Margaret had a short story published in the Western Romance Anthology, Rawhide ‘N Roses which was a 2015 Rone Finalist.

On 1st June,2015, Falsely Accused was announced as the winner of the historical novel section of Easy Chair Book shop literary competition.

Haunted Hearts came 5th in the romance section of Easy Chair Book shop competition 2015.

Margaret won the 2007 Author of the Year at AussieAuthors.com. She also won it for a 2nd time in 2010.

Frontier Wife, won the 2010 Reader's Favorite Historical Romance Award.

Wild Oats

As an unpublished manuscript, Fiery Possession was short-listed in English Publisher,ChocLit Find An Aussie Star competition, in December 2012.

A Rose In No-Man's Land (published by Amazon Encore),won an un-published manuscript award through RWA (Romance Writers of Australia), several years ago and also won the Best Historical Romance of 2015 at Authors On The Air Global Radio Network Book Reviewers.

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Juliet Waldron

Hot, Strong, No Sugar

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2012

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If this is how you like your morning brew, give this a try. This is a romance, in the dictionary sense of "adventure," but written as if PC romance never existed, and set in Victorian Australia. Here, a rich, emotionally shut-off cattle baron is forced by strange circumstances to marry the daughter of his worst enemy. How old wounds and terrible crimes are finally let go, how healing comes to willing hearts and how lust turns to love is the subject of the story. There is some raw sex and not all the pictures drawn here are pretty. Set in the Victorian era, Australian men are tough and untamed, dismissive of women, and most women, especially poor ones, know their place and endure. In short, this is as much an actual "historical" as it is "romance." The author knows the time period. (I just waded through Thomas Keneally's immense history, "Australians".) This is the often violent past of her astonishing--familiar and yet unfamiliar--country. Although there were moments when my belief was stretched, this powerful and compelling story of lust turning to love was a page turner.

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Leanne

I'm from Melbourne myself and just loved the history involved in this tale

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2016

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Quite an adventure this story was. I'm from Melbourne myself and just loved the history involved in this tale. It wasn't a sweet romance, at times I wanted to slap that brute of a man. It was such a hard life at that point in history, men were cruder and women were possessions. I was waiting for that connection that would heal him and open his eyes to the love he had in front of him. Such a page turner, I was glued to my kindle desperate to read what would happen next. Well done Margaret, I look forward to reading more of your books.

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IT'S NOT HEARTS AND FLOWERS

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2012

When Elizabeth Campbell's twin brother Alistair is caught trying to steal a horse. He is prepared to run and hide out from the law. But Beth refuses to allow him to go and find more trouble. She insists she will go and talk to Martin Mulvaney the owner of the horse and reason with him. But Martin Mulvaney and the Campbell's have never got along, in fact they detest one another. But during the journey Beth is thrown from her horse and is captured by gypsies. Eventually escaping she lands on Martins doorstep. The knock to her head has caused her to suffer from amnesia, she has no memory at all not even her own name. Martin is dumbfounded as to where this delicate beauty has come from. He assumes she is a runaway from the local brothel.

Set in the 1870's in Australia, this is a love story, but it has no romance. Martin is a crude, rough and bad tempered man, who cares little for others wishes or feelings. Beth is a rather naive girl especially living in such harsh and unforgiving times. Martin is surprised when he discovers Beth is a virgin, and then she gets pregnant, so he reluctantly marries her. His uncle has recognised her, and has to persuade Martin to do the honerable thing. But what will happen when Beth regains her memory.
This is a story that I did enjoy, but I do appreciate it might not be to everyone's taste. It did at times make me laugh while at others grit my teeth. Martin is not everyone's idea of a romantic hero. At times I wondered how Beth tolerated his behaviour.

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Kingston

This was just an okay read

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2014

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Once again I read a Margaret Tanner novel and it just doesn't quite hit the mark for me. It kept my interest and I liked the dynamic of the characters, but it just felt like something was missing and things were not explored enough.

Just as other reviewers have mentioned, Martin is very mean and sometimes cruel. He is I believe and overall better hero than the hero in Tanner's other novel Fiery Possession. He battles with his inner demons which developed from tragic circumstances in his childhood.

I am not completely sure that I fully understand Elizabeth's character like I should. Just because it is written as if there should be a difference in her character as Storm and then as Elizabeth but I am not completely sure there is a difference.

Again I will write what I did and didn't like.

What I did like:

1) I did like both Elizabeth and Martin. I think in a lot of ways they are representative of the male and female dynamic in that point in history. Martin wasn't think great amazing hero who was always loving, cared, and helped every person that needed it. A lot of time we get Heroes who are literally hero's and who feel compassion( in a manly way) for others. In Martin we were able to see a tough and commanding character with glimpses of his human side. I think that part was well written. Elizabeth was a little more submissive but she never backed down from what she believed in, no matter how much she feared Martin would be upset. She was always willingly to follow her heart.

2) The book also touched on the lives of people who were not rich and who may have struggled and how life was for them. I liked that they also talked about the natives of Australia and the treatment they received from people.

What I did not like:

1) I liked that the lives of poor people were talked about but I did not like was the Elizabeth came into contact with these people who needed help. It was like a formula every 60 pages after a certain point in the book Elizabeth met someone who needed help. While I liked that she felt compassion for others it kept pointing to her poor upbringing and how she knew what it was like. It was a little annoying. Once and even twice would have been enough.

2)The author didn't spend enough time developing Elizabeth and Martin's relationship. It could have been written better. Instead of all the misunderstanding more of the story could have pointed to some of the time they spent together. For instance, the love scenes....we really only know that they are in bed and something happens. A couple descriptions and that is it.....it would have been nice for them to talk after, especially since those love scenes were often and nothing more than telling us something happened.

3) Time sequence was off in this. So Elizabeth is pregnant. Halfway in the book we read that she is due in February. At this point she is about 3 or 4 months pregnant Later on we read that several weeks after a certain incident that things were happening( don't want to give it away) Anyway a little bit after that we read she is 8 months. Then we read Martin talking about weeks and then translating them into months later on. It would have to be months maybe 2 or 3 to be exact and shouldn't be thought of as just weeks. I think it would have been much nicer if Elizabeth gave birth earlier on to see how that played on the relationship between him and Elizabeth especially since Martin was so desperate for a child. I think that would have been a great catalyst for their growing relationship. Also it would have been nice to see how it helped with the old rivalry.

4) Alistair is mentioned to have some dealings with a gang. We never truly find out what happens between him and them. Did he cut ties? He he still in cahoots with them? We are left with nothing.

5) We read about things Martin does but it would have been much nicer if we actually read about it happening. It would have been much more fun than all the extra stuff coming in between their relationship.

6) I believe the story was static.....and very anti-climatic. Elizabeth losing her memory and gaining it back in the manner in which she did just happened. I was just left saying, " okay." Yes, it was a nice little mix to have the twin factor come in but it was just there nothing great about it. There were many times things happened and then it was over and you are left wondering if that is it. This might be because there were too many things happening. Too many things took over the story of two people that come from families that hate each other and eventually fall in love.

The castle being a place in ruin....it would have been so nice if Elizabeth came and made changes....changes that could help Martin put his childhood memories to rest. This would have also been something nice to help their relationship and show progression in both characters. It did not happen. Nothing, but the ability to say I love you and old grudges put to the side happen. We are told things, which is fine because it moves the book a little a faster, but when it comes to the two main characters we need read about their progression, we need to read about their relationship and not just told about it. Show us why they fall in love. Show us how they grow us individuals and as a couple.

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MishkaGirl

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Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2013

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Martin is certainly not a loveable, romantic hero but under the gentle Beth's influence he slowly becomes softer.
Like the hero in Fiery Possession, you'll hate him, feel sorry for him and then want to shake some sense into him.
The story sweeps you back to 19th century Victoria with the hardships of drought, poverty, unemployment and inequality.
I highly recommend this book. Like Ms Tanners other books, I found this a real page turner.

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Ina G

Another great read from Margaret Tanner.

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016

Just finished reading this book. Another great read from Margaret Tanner. She writes such amazing stories which are so hard to put down. Highly recommend reading her books.

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Cindy Marley

This book was a gift for an honest review.

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2015

I just loved this book,a great page turner you just have to buy this book. Margaret Tanner is great author.can't wait to read more books by this Author. Buuy this book you will not regret it. It's a keeper for m,e I really really enjoyed it.

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IT'S NOT HEARTS AND FLOWERS

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 5, 2012

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When Elizabeth Campbell's twin brother Alistair is caught trying to steal a horse. He is prepared to run and hide out from the law. But Beth refuses to allow him to go and find more trouble. She insists she will go and talk to Martin Mulvaney the owner of the horse and reason with him. But Martin Mulvaney and the Campbell's have never got along, in fact they detest one another. But during the journey Beth is thrown from her horse and is captured by gypsies. Eventually escaping she lands on Martins doorstep. The knock to her head has caused her to suffer from amnesia, she has no memory at all not even her own name. Martin is dumbfounded as to where this delicate beauty has come from. He assumes she is a runaway from the local brothel.

Set in the 1870's in Australia, this is a love story, but it has no romance. Martin is a crude, rough and bad tempered man, who cares little for others wishes or feelings. Beth is a rather naive girl especially living in such harsh and unforgiving times. Martin is surprised when he discovers Beth is a virgin, and then she gets pregnant, so he reluctantly marries her. His uncle has recognised her, and has to persuade Martin to do the honerable thing. But what will happen when Beth regains her memory.
This is a story that I did enjoy, but I do appreciate it might not be to everyone's taste. It did at times make me laugh while at others grit my teeth. Martin is not everyone's idea of a romantic hero. At times I wondered how Beth tolerated his behaviour.

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Lorraine

Amazing read

Reviewed in Australia on July 18, 2016

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After reading so many western romance it was nice to read a excellent story on Australia and its history I highly recommend this book as it had me hooked from the beginning

kate

loved every bit

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 23, 2014

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i love Margaret tanner so far this is the best i have read, its not all lo-vie do-vie, its a book you will not want to put down i have read it 3 times now. well worth the money altho i got it when it was free i would have bought it anyway.

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Ina G

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on July 30, 2016

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Another great read and story by Margaret Tanner.

Garnet Rose

Serious but Seductive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2012

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This is the story of two people brought together by fate. The woman Beth Campbell, having no idea who she really is after a fall from a horse, appears on the doorstep of her grandfather's sworn enemy's ranch. The man, landowner and horse breeder Martin Mulvaney, embittered and untrusting, takes her into his home and shows a softer side as he warms to the guileless young woman.

What follows is the tale of a woman who is determined to win the love of a man her family hate and the man's resolve not to let her. Set in late Nineteenth Century Australia, this was not always a comfortable read.

Savage Possession is the first book I read on my new kindle and not my usual choice. I usually go for Regency Comedies. This was definitely not a Regency Comedy. There were not many laughs in this book but what it lacked in humour it made up for in originality and depth. The characters were well defined but not without flaws making them all the more believable. This book might not appeal to the reader used to a more frothy romance but I found it honest and compelling.

I shall still read my Regency Romances, but if ever I’m in the mood for a book that pulls no punches and is unpredictable right up until the last page, then I shall choose a Margaret Tanner novel.