The Awakening Author:Jude Devereaux Since the age of 14 on her father's vast hops ranch in early 1900s California, beautiful young Amanda Caulden has been groomed to be the "perfect" woman. Every minute of her day, everything she says, does, wears and eats is dictated by her emotionless tutor, Taylor Driscoll, whom she is expected to marry. She is an encyclopedia of knowledge, b... more »ut no book could have prepared her for a man as handsome and vital as Dr. Henry Raine Montgomery, who arrives to improve the working conditions of migrant farm workers in the area. He is everything passionate that is missing in her life and has a new lesson to teach...in his arms. Gradually awakening to everything she has been denied as a daughter and a woman, she will valiantly defy her father and Taylor - even risk her life - to follow a passion that defies reason.« less