Brisk pacing, witty repartee and memorable protagonists will ensure that Kleypas's newest is well received. When he appeared at her door, she believed he was her gift to herself, hired for one night of passion. Although both Amanda and Jack are fully developed characters, it is Jack, the half-Irish bastard son of a lord, who truly shines as he struggles to overcome his dark past. 6 47 0 Summary She was unmarried, untouched and almost thirty, but novelist Amanda Briars wasnt about to greet her next birthday without making love to a man.
A series of delightful exchanges follows as the two attempt to reconcile their need for independence and their growing passion for each other. One week later, Amanda encounters her nighttime visitor at a London soiree and is mortified to learn that he is her new publisher. Mistaking Jack for the man that she sent for, Amanda shares an amorous moment with him before she recovers her senses and pushes him out the door. On the night of her clandestine meeting with a male prostitute, however, handsome and unscrupulous publishing tycoon Jack Devlin appears at her door instead. Free-thinking Amanda Briars, who writes scandalous tales of romance and intrigue, has resigned herself to a life of solitude, but she feels that her lack of a husband shouldn't preclude her from being intimate with a man-just once. With her thirtieth birthday around the corner, unmarried novelist Amanda Briars is determined to finally make love to a man and finds herself drawn to the. As an established and recognized author in Regency England, Amanda Briars is a unique and intriguing heroine. In this feisty and frolicsome historical, Kleypas ( Where Dreams Begin, etc.) proves that turning 30 can signal the beginning of an exciting new decade, even for a 19th-century spinster. Suddenly You 3 Stars One of Kleypas's earlier works that, unfortunately, does not live up to its potential.
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