Sweet Revenge (1989) (edit title/settings)

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• Princess Adrianne: Heroine; daughter of Phoebe Spring and the King of Jaquir. Has been shunned and ignored by her father all her life because she was born a girl; as a result, Adrianne has developed a deep hatred of her father. Has burdened the responsibility of looking after her mother ever since they left Jaquir.
• Philip Chamberlain: Hero; ex-thief. Had the highest success rate of theft of jewels in the world. Now turned to the side of the 'good' by working with Interpol to catch others like him.
• Celeste Michaels: Phoebe's best friend and Addy's friend. A New York star in the theatres.
• Stuart Spencer: Philip's boss in Interpol
• Phoebe Spring: Once a world-class actress before she fell in love with Abdu and left America for Jaquir. Mother to Addy and because of complications from her birth, is unable to bear any more children. As a result of this, and the fact that Addy is a girl, Abdu hates her and took on another wife. Phoebe turned to drugs and drink to distance herself from the oppressive lifestyle in Jaquir
• King Abdu ibn Faisal Rahman al-Jaquir, of Jaquir: King of Jaquir and father of Addy, though he does not acknowledge or act on this latter fact. Fell in love with Phoebe Spring whilst in America, though after she bore him a daughter and could bear no more, he began to resent her for seducing him away from Islam and his way of life. Took on another two wives of the four that his country allows him.
• Mary Chamberlain: Philip's mother. Mary is the number one woman in Philip's life. Mary had Philip young and carried on with her life, despite being unmarried. Works hard to give Philip a proper upbringing.
• Aunt Latifa: Addy's aunt
• Duja: Latifa's daughter and Addy's best friend as a child. Duja is five years older than Addy. Marries an American businessman in the oil industry
• Jiddah: Addy's grandmother; mother to Abdu. Former Queen of Jaquir; revered because she bore twelve children
• Fahid: Addy's younger brother by two years; son of Abdu's second wife, Leiha
• Leiha: Abdu's second wife. Has given him a son and two daughters, with another child on the way when Addy and Phoebe leave Jaquir
• Meri: Abdu's third wife. Is divorced when she gives him a daughter.
• Larry Curtis: Phoebe's former agent; she turns to him when she returns to America.
• Eddie Treewalker III: Rich son of a plastic surgeon. Philip befriends him in order to steal his mother's jewels

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• “"it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne "It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip"”

• “love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.”

  adrianne

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• London
• Jaquir: (from 1968) The oil-rich country in the Middle-East where Addy was born
• Paris
• New York City
• Hollywood
• Cozumel

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nora Roberts (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Profanity. Sexual content.

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• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( R ) › Roberts, Nora
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Romance › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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• Nora Roberts: Author's website

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