Constance Gluyas (March 28, 1920 – August 1983)

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In The Passionate Savage, Signet, 1980, Constance Gluyas (1920 March 28 - 1983 August, Arcadia, Los Angeles, CA) features Flaming Dawn, who broke her people's trust by giving herself to the white hunter, Lucien Marsh, and followed him into a white man's world where the price of her desire was unspeakable degradation. And Lady Samantha Pierce, who broke her marriage vows and her social code to possess Lucien Marsh, desperately seeking escape from her gilded cage of perverse passions and shocking corruption. Two magnificent women, so unalike on the surface, yet sisters-under-the-skin in their hunger and their daring. Two exquisite rival heroines in a sweeping epic that moves from the untamed American wilderness to the licentious aristocratic underworld of Victorian London to reach flaming new heights of adventure and romance...

Branded as a runaway, white slave, golden haired Caroline Fane, heroine of Rogue's Mistress, had come with her rogue lover Justin from the dangers surrounding them in England to the unknown perils in America. Now she saw this man who possessed her being and intoxicated her with every with every excitement of spirit and flesh being tempted by the naked lust of an exquisite half indian girl, who seductively led him down a path of insatiable desire...

In Savage Eden, beautiful Caroline Fane thought she had known the ultimate in degradation and danger when she was unjustly accused of adultery and murder and flogged naked in public. She just barely escaped the gallows with Justine Lawrence, the daring, flamboyant highwayman, whose lust for her she could not resist. But now in the New World, Caroline and Justin were thrust into bondage at the notorious plantation of Montrose, where swaggering overseers, servants and slaves, and a sadistic mistress intermingled in strange relationships, demanding erotic satisfactions. It was here that the two lovers united in an alliance of never-to-be forgotten passion, fire and tenderness, each sworn to save the other from the carnal appetites that raged in this - Savage Eden.

From Angela Benedetti, Romance writer: "I read a couple of her books when I was a kid, and in fact one of her books, Rogue's Mistress, was one of the first two historical romances I ever read. I never knew anything about Gluyas as a person, though.

I remember being pleasantly surprised to see that she had an inter-racial romance in... I think it was Savage Eden. At any rate, it was the sequel to Rogue's Mistress, where a black man and a white woman were lovers. They were secondary characters, and they both ended up dead :P but it was rare to see that at all back in the seventies.

I'm afraid I never knew any biographical info about the writer, I was only twelve when I first read her and wasn't paying attention to that sort of thing." (Angela Benedetti has been writing since she was a kid. Her romance addiction started when her mom began loaning her historicals when she was twelve — first Rogue's Mistress by Constance Gluyas, followed shortly by Johanna Lindsey’s Captive Bride.)

First Book - Vantage Hall (1971)

Last Book - Bridge to Yesterday (1983)

Comments

[treva2007.livejournal.com]

I loved Gluyas books back in the day. Still have a few.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

It's a pity that there aren't so many info about her, she seems to be the favorite of many.