Prelude to a Scandal
Lady Justine is willing to trade her good name, her reputation and her place in London’s gossip-hungry ton to secure her father’s release from prison. But when the notorious Duke of Bradford counters her offer with a proposal of marriage, the stakes grow higher still. For while the smouldering...
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Lady Justine is willing to trade her good name, her reputation and her place in London’s gossip-hungry ton to secure her father’s release from prison. But when the notorious Duke of Bradford counters her offer with a proposal of marriage, the stakes grow higher still. For while the smouldering lord is famous for his conquests, the man is oblivious to both her devotion and her charms. And Justine is soon afraid she has wagered all for naught
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780373775378 (0373775377)
Publish date: December 21st 2010
Publisher: HQN Books
Pages no: 376
Edition language: English
Series: Scandal (#1)
How I feel about the book, the image that says it all:This book started great, but after the 3rd chapter or so it went downhill. We have the heroine who is about 50% likable who's in love with the hero, or, at least, what she imagines him to be. Then we have the hero who allegedly is a nymphomaniac(...
The heroine annoyed me to now end.
I've been tired with historical's because they're all obnoxiously predictable. This one is predictable in most ways, but thankfully it was very different in content. Not what I expected... and that's what made me keep reading. Honestly, it's probably only a 3, but I'm so impressed with the fact that...
Unconventional heroine accepts rake Duke's marriage proposal of marriage in return for bailing her zoologist father who was imprisoned by England's king for publishing a shocking book about human sexuality from his animal research. Both heroine & Hero have been attracted to each other since they 1st...
The romance novel seems the logical place to work out some complex stuff about sexual desire, the relationship between sex and love, the domestic, etc. But I wouldn't know it from the (admittedly few) romances that I've read. There's a chilling sameness to the sexual responses, underneath all the wo...
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