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Genre/Form: | Love stories Regency fiction Romance fiction Fiction Regency novels |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Balogh |
ISBN: | 9780440244233 0440244234 9781607519430 1607519437 |
OCLC Number: | 233939351 |
Notes: | Second in a series of novels about the Huxtable family, prececed by Vanessa's story, "First comes marriage," and now Katherine's story, in this work, "Then comes seduction." Margaret's story will follow, "At last comes love," and Stephen's story, "Seducing an angel."--Cover, p.2. |
Description: | 419 pages ; 18 cm |
Contents: | "A Dell book." -Second in a series of novels about the Huxtable family, prececed by Vanessa's story, "First comes marriage, " and now Katherine's story, in this work, "Then comes seduction." Margaret's story will follow, "At last comes love, " and Stephen's story, "Seducing an angel." -- Cover, p.2.-In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London's most notorious lover on his ability to seduce the virtuous Katherine Huxtable. For Katherine, Jasper's offer is irresistible: to make London's most dangerous rake fall in love with her. Then Jasper suddenly ups the ante by asking her to become his wife. |
Responsibility: | Mary Balogh. |
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An excellent summer read
This is the second in a series of four historical romance novels centered on the Huxable siblings, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a perfect summer escapist novel.
Katherine's story begins just after the end of the first book and then skips ahead three years. At the start of this book,...
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This is the second in a series of four historical romance novels centered on the Huxable siblings, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a perfect summer escapist novel.
Katherine's story begins just after the end of the first book and then skips ahead three years. At the start of this book, she's 20 years old and the focus of a drunken bet: Jasper Finley bets his buddies that he can seduce her within two weeks. It's a wager that comes back to bite them in the backsides three years later when his half-sister's cousin and aunt try to use it as leverage to get control of his sister and her fortune.
There is no real advancement in solving the mystery of Constantine's behavior (a plot thread held over from book #1--First Comes Marriage), but you do see more of him in this volume. I am hoping that book #3 (At Last Comes Love or even #4 (Seducing an Angel) delves into that storyline and resolves it.
It was a fun read, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the quartet.
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