Review: Good historical romance long novella
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
I enjoyed this story of reunited lovers, revenge, misunderstandings and the triumph of true love over wickedness. The author made the story long enough to establish good, well rounded characters in the H /h and even in some of the supporting characters of friends and family, but kept the story short enough for it to be a quick read having a fairly straightforward storyline with a few surprises.Lady Sabine Orsini returns home to London to seek revenge on the man who ruined her and her parents. To help her she seeks out the man she was forced by desperate circumstance to leave behind ten years ago, Lord Marcus Danvers, the Marquis of Wolverstone, her true love. Since she had to leave him without explanation, Marcus has been bitter and cynical about love and is known now as London's greatest rakehell. While Marcus is a far cry from the man she once knew, Sabine is no longer the young, naive daughter of a French Comte who lost everything in the revolution. She's now the wealthy widow of an Italian Count and a mother, and she is determined to avenge her parents' deaths due to the actions of a despicable man. Marcus agrees to help her hit the man at his weakest point, his gambling addiction, but he has a few "sidebets" of his own, as Marcus is just as determined to avenge his own pain. Who will win, who will lose? Is there a way for them both to win or will they both be hurt all over again?This story does contain some steamy sexual scenes and some violence. I enjoyed this book and have read others by this author that I enjoyed as well.Heat factor hot.