Anything-or anyone-is his for the asking. Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. even knowing he might be the devil in disguise. As danger draws closer, she’ll do whatever it takes to save the man she loves. Their passion blazes with an intensity Merritt has never known before, making her long for the one thing she can’t have from Keir MacRae: forever.

His world is thrown into upheaval, and the only one he trusts is Merritt Keir doesn’t know why someone wants him dead until fate reveals the secret of his mysterious past. One: don’t fall in love with the dazzling Lady Merritt Sterling. They couldn’t be more different, but their attraction is powerful, raw and irresistible.įrom the moment Keir MacRae arrives in London, he has two goals. But then she meets Keir MacRae, a rough-and-rugged Scottish whisky distiller, and all her sensible plans vanish like smoke. So far, she’s been too smart to provide them with one. Lady Merritt Sterling, a strong-willed young widow who’s running her late husband’s shipping company, knows London society is dying to catch her in a scandal. “The devil never tries to make people do the wrong thing by scaring them. That doesn’t stop railway magnate Tom Severin from asking for her hand within moments of meeting her. Lady Cassandra Ravenel has turned down many proposals, holding out for real feeling.

“Opposites attract in spectacular fashion in the sixth Victorian-era Romance in bestseller Kleypas’s Ravenel series (after Devil’s Daughter), which pairs a true romantic with a cynical intellectual. Kleypas continues her winning streak with a thoroughly engrossing crossover between her Regency Wallflowers series and Victorian Ravenels novels.

The novel abounds in the vintage pleasures of her writing: finely drawn characters a tactile, sensuous style in both the sex scenes and the landscape descriptions banter that illustrates the emotional compatibility of romantic partners dual points of view that show both the hero’s and the heroine’s interior lives moving moments of familial ties and glimpses of couples from other novels to assure us that love lasts forever. Undemandingly pleasurable and guaranteed to go on the reread shelf.

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