6/20/2023 0 Comments Cold hearted rake![]() ![]() 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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