Brontë à la Mills & Boon

Not metaphorically but very real. Two books published this year by Mills & Boon in the Modern ™ Romance series (The Powerful and The Pure miniseries). First a retelling of Jane Eyre:

The Forbidden Innocent
Sharon Kendrick
Modern Mills & Boon
ISBN: 978-0263219319
January 2011

New bride at Blackwood Manor? Having spent her childhood in care, Ashley Jones has no one. She desperately needs her new live-in job as an author’s assistant. But she is filled with trepidation when she arrives at isolated Blackwood Manor and meets the formidable Jack Marchant. Ashley thinks she is just a drab nobody…but her heart goes out to anguished, tortured Jack. She has no idea what troubles him. But one day a private kiss becomes a passionate affair…an affair that is as secret as it is forbidden… The Powerful and the Pure When Beauty tames the brooding Beast…

And Wuthering Heights:

The Return of the Stranger
Kate Walker
Mills & Boon
ISBN: 0263886891
September 2, 2011

Standing high on the windswept moors, the lone figure of Heath Montanha vows vengeance on the woman who destroyed the last fragments of his heart…Lady Katherine Charlton has never forgotten the stablehand with dangerous fists and a troubled heart from her childhood. Now the rebel is back, his powerful anger concealed under a polished and commanding veneer.When ten years of scandal and secrets are unleashed, with a passionate, furious kiss, Heath’s deepest, darkest wish crystallises… Revenge – and Kathy – will be his!

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights