Review: Spicy Historical Romance - I'm Hooked!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2012
After absolutely loving Samantha Holt's novel `The Angel's Assassin' I was excited to read her new Knight Collection. First of all, I am a huge historical romance fan and love well written stories about castles, beautiful scenery, feisty heroines and brooding sexy hero's  - which is exactly what this book delivers.  Also, for an historical romance to be brilliant the author needs to do a lot of research into the period, including scenery, clothing and colloquial language. This collection of short, sexy stories is successful in showing the author's devotion to thoroughly researching her genre.The first short story One Knight features the beautiful feisty Katerina who is to be married to the cold and distant (yet tall, dark and handsome) Guy, who seems oblivious to her charms"...he had regarded her with cold distaste and she felt stripped bare under his stare." Little does Katerina know the passion that lies beneath the cool exterior!The second story Highland Knight is one of my personal favourite themes - marrying the enemy to bring about peace between warring clans!  In this spicy story, strong - willed Anna must fulfil her duty to her clan by marrying Niall Sinclair, the smug, handsome son of her Clans enemy."I'll no' expect a Sinclair to want a lass like me. I cannae do submissive, as ye well know."  - Anna Mackenzie."Niall looked forward to showing her that he would not bow down to no woman." - Niall SinclairHowever, it isn't long before sparks fly and Anna and Niall's contempt for each other turns steamy!The third story Black Knight is my favourite from the collection. It features Katherine, a bored young Lady who is longing for a dark adventure. Her wish is granted with the appearance of a `stranger' in her bedchamber, resulting is a very erotic read!The fourth story White Knight, is a clever and highly original story about the Lady Sara and her unexpected admirer. Christian has loved Sara from afar for years and it is not until the night she tries to escape her impending wedding that Sara is thrown into his arms. Not only does this one feature steamy hot scenes but a nice touch of adventure as well.What I really enjoyed about all of these stories is that Samantha Holt really differs from other authors in the genre in that she often interchanges the point of view from the Heroine to the Hero, which helps the story develop to a deeper level.  Her stories are all highly individual and each would make a fantastic full-length novel.