{"first_publish_date": "1988", "description": "HE SAVED HER WITH CHIVALRY, HE LOVED HER WITH SAVAGERY- SHE LURED HIM TO ECSTASY\r\n\r\nWhen handsome Lord Chatham rescued the golden-haired Ondine from England's gallows, he demanded only one thing in return . .. her hand in marriage. In gratitude, Ondine consented to his plans -- yet refused his touch.\r\n\r\nThough his smoldering desire aroused her own secret temptations, Ondine defied her mysterious husband. Until suddenly, in the notorious court of Charles II, the sapphire-eyed beauty was plunged into a web of danger and desire, jealousy and romance. As secrets exploded, and swords clashed in vengeance, the strangers in marriage became partners in passion, and lovers on fire...\r\n\r\nOndine, once a pampered lady, becomes an innocent pawn in a terrible game of power and influence that ends in her being condemned to death, and she is rescued by the vengeful Lord Chatham, who needs a wife for his own purposes.", "title": "Ondine", "covers": [3738392, 12703416], "subject_places": ["Great Britain"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3557.R198 O53 1999"], "key": "/works/OL1979169W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL19246A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["Charles II, 1660-1685"], "subjects": ["Fiction, Romance, Historical \"Great britain", "fiction\"", "Courts and courtiers", "Fiction", "Marriage", "History", "Mei guo wen xue", "Xiao shuo", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Fiction, romance, historical, general"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "subject_people": ["Ondine", "Lord Chatham"], "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:39:35.786464"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-08-17T05:02:51.206790"}}