num_pages: 376
description: "Etna Bliss her just moved to the New England town where her uncle teaches college when her life is transformed in a single stroke. She is dining in a hotel downtown when a fire forces her to escape to the snowy streets outside. Amid the smoke and chaos of that night she is glimpsed, standing under a streetlight, by a man who was dining in the same room - a man who is so overwhelmed by the sight of her that he rebuilds his life around a single goal: to marry Etna Bliss." That man is Nicholas Van Tassel, and All He Ever Wanted is his account of how two lives changed from that tumultuous night forward. A proud and orderly man, Van Tassel is ill equipped to deal with the ferocity of love. But he is determined to have Etna, no matter what the cost. Riding a train south many years later, he unwinds his memories of the drama that followed and struggles to understand the mystery his life became on that night.
language: English
title: All He Ever Wanted
titlecomplete: All He Ever Wanted
characters: Nicholas Van Tassel, Etna Bliss
genres: Drama, Historical, Adult, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Chick Lit
ratings_count: 14812
places: New Hampshire
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award)
category: Best Historical Saga
publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd