A Woman Scorned

1999-03-15 True Crime

Author : Lisa Pulitzer
Release : 1999-03-15
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 96X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Woman Scorned written by Lisa Pulitzer. This book was released on 1999-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich, beautiful, deadly... Billionairess Susan Cummings was very rich, even by the exalted standards of Virginia horse country. Shy and single, she used just two rooms of her huge mansion and slept with a .357 Magnum under her pillow. Some people called her haughty. Others said she was strangely obsessive, eccentric, and emotionless, with a strong distrust of people. Her lover, Roberto, an Argentinian polo player with an eye for wealthy women, was undoubtedly handsome and possessive...and he was also cheating on her. But police, answering a mysterious 911 call, saw him only as a bullet-riddled corpse. Telling of escalating abuse, Susan displayed the blood running freely from knife wounds on her arm, and said she shot him in self-defense. Yet police had their doubts: claiming that Roberto had been dead so long, the pool of his blood looked like sticky red Jell-O... Now, in a harrowing true tale of secrets, obsession and betrayal, top crime writer Lisa Pulitzer reveals the uncensored truth about a privileged world where ordinary rules don't apply...where a shocking crime rattled the sprawling playground of the wealthy elite...and where money can buy almost everything...

A Woman Scorned

2000-05-01 Fiction

Author : Liz Carlyle
Release : 2000-05-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 78X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Woman Scorned written by Liz Carlyle. This book was released on 2000-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its opening scene to its breath-catching climax, Liz Carlyle's charming Regency romance is a vividly etched portrait of passion and intrigue. When a woman consumed by sinister secrets opens the door to a strikingly handsome stranger, a powerful desire rushes in—and a love she could not have imagined. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and Jonet Rowland is surely that. But she is also lovely, rich, and—it is rumored—an unrepentant adulteress. When her philandering husband, the marquis of Mercer, is murdered in his own bed, it's whispered that Jonet is a femme fatale in more ways than one. Shunned by society, the daring widow steels herself to fight for what truly matters—her children. When his scheming uncle begs him to investigate the death of his brother, Lord Mercer, Captain Cole Amherst refuses. But it is soon apparent that treachery stalks two innocent boys, and Cole plunges into the viper's pit that is Jonet Rowland's life. Nothing could have prepared Cole for the lust Jonet inspires. But as danger swirls about them, he is tortured by doubt. Can an honorable soldier open his shuttered heart and let a wicked widow teach him how to truly love?

A Woman Scorned

2025-01-16 Fiction

Author : Jack Jordan
Release : 2025-01-16
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 155/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Woman Scorned written by Jack Jordan. This book was released on 2025-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you afraid? You should be. The husband: in over his head with no way of knowing the truth. The mistress: blinded by love, betrayed by her family... The neighbour: will stop at nothing to protect the life he has fought to create. The wife: a woman bent on revenge, but how far is she willing to go...? Dark as night, this is a brilliantly plotted, gripping short story from the e-book sensation, Jack Jordan.

A Woman Scorned

2011-12-14 History

Author : Peggy Sanday
Release : 2011-12-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 094/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Woman Scorned written by Peggy Sanday. This book was released on 2011-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Edition with a New Afterword by the author The venerable and often misquoted phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" continues to haunt American women who accuse men of sexual harassment and rape. In this bracing study of American sexual culture and the politics of acquaintance rape, anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday identifies the sexual stereotypes that continue to obstruct justice and diminish women. Beginning with a harrowing account of the St. John's rape case, Sanday reaches back through British and American landmark rape cases to explain how, with the exception of earliest colonial times, rape has been a crime notable for placing the woman on trial. Whether she is charged as a false accuser, gold digger, loose or scorned woman, stereotypes prevail. American jurisprudence and the public at large remain divided on acquaintance rape. With the passage of the Violence Against Women Act—one of the most important legislation for women—a new breed of antifeminists stepped up to the plate to subordinate women's bid for sexual autonomy and freedom. A groundbreaking, classic work of scholarship that coherently challenges the anti-rape backlash and its rhetoric, A Woman Scorned continues to bring a broad perspective to our understanding of acquaintance rape, even if its original vision of a new paradigm for female sexual equality awaits implementation.

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