The Temptress (Montgomery 12) by Jude Deveraux

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Jude Deveraux brings her bestselling Montgomery family to America...with a marvelous new heroine! With the blazing spirit of a true Montgomery, heiress Christian Montgomery Mathison bravely defies the two men who abduct her. Forced into the primitive rain forests of the Washington... read more

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Summary

Christiana Montgomery Mathison is a woman of her own person, ahead of her time, a renowned reporter who puts her self if need be in harms way to get the story. Del Mathison needs his only child to settle down and give him some heirs to run his shipping company. She is smack in the middle of... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Cast of Characters/Important People

Christiana Montgomery Mathison: daughter of Delmar Mathison (it was her mother who was Montgomery), named Christiana a bit later in her life after saving a whole church full of people with a foresight. She falls in love with an excon.She is also Nola Dallas a famous reporter who is constantly getting herself in trouble so she can report on it to her editor at a newspaper.
Delmar Mathison: owner of Warbrooke Shipping? his only child a girl Christiana, is off on her career as a reporter and is constantly getting in scrapes and puttin her life in danger. so he sends a fool, and an excon to kidnap her from a fool mission. he is executer for a friend who happens to be the grandfather of Ty (excon) unbenownced to Ty of course.
Asher Prescott: man who wants to marry Chris for her money and is trying to woo her especially after he sees her beauty. And thinks he is above Ty. He's pretty much ready to avoid most danger.
Tynan: excon released by Del and later found to be actually "Samuel James Dysan the third" who has fallen in love with Chris but wont even admit it to himself as he thinks she could never really love him and that he isnt good enough for her. was half raised by prostitutes and half by a cruel farmer an old man who had found his dying mother sold him to.
Hugh Lanier: the man that Chris was trying to expose for his bad deeds when Ty and Asher found her to bring her home. She had left a note saying all she was going to do to expose him so he immediately became her enemy.
Rory Sayers: a man from the town where Ty grew up and knew all his past or at least what he was accused of. Had baited him to a fight when Chris thwarted his assistance to the public degradation of Ty.
Diana Eskridge: a woman usually beaten by her husband so somewhat meek and mild. found by Chris and Asher on their way out of town and she had made a dying plea for a young relative of hers who she believed to be in some trouble. So Chris pretended to be her to go in and find out the story.
Whitman Eskridge: the abusive husband of Diana who ends up dead with her by attackers and is immitated by Asher as he and Chris go in and find out what trouble this young man is in, that Diana had so desperately pled for.
Owen Hamilton: an Uncle of this young man named Lionel who is the beneficiary of the estate that they live at. and the uncle secretly plans to do the boy in. Is scheming with a very bad man.
Lionel: Young heir to the estate where he and his uncle live, is being plotted against by his uncle. The young man has never been disciplined much and is rude and nasty to most people.
Unity: cook and housekeeper of the Hamilton? estate.
Mrs Laura: Lionels mother died when he was young.
Dr. Benyard Dysan: man cohorting with owen. turns out to be a real bad outlaw and out to get Tynan and Tys real family as he believes he should be the real heir.
Pilar: an ex prostitute who comes to help Ty with a ruse in getting Chris out of the situation at the Hamilton estate.
Lester Chanry (and his brothers): family of men whom Ty is acquainted and usually at odds with. they turn out to be after him in a long line of enemies.
Red: a prostitute who was there when an old man brought Ty in to have someone raise him from an infant. She became his mother with all the other prostitutes.