A Victorian rebel winner!
A Dark and Stormy Knight (Victorian Rebels #7)
by Kerrigan Byrne
I just adore the Victorian rebels! Byrne rocks when it comes to these edgy noir romances. Cutter/Carlton Morely's story is another tribute exhibiting Byrne's considerable talent.
Sir Carlton Morley, the Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, is the one character we don't know much about. He's driven, he's a force to be reckoned with. He's a friend who can be depended on, an enemy you'd never want.
When Morley falls into an unlooked for liaison with Prudence Goode, daughter of the lesser nobility, it's for one night only. He doesn't know who she is, he doesn't want to know and their paths will never again cross. It's a moment of unlooked for madness, going right against the hard won control that Morley normally exhibits.
Determined to have a night of freedom before she's reluctantly married to the Earl of Sutherland, whom Pru had adored until she discovered his perfidy, Pru seeks out a house of pleasure, Stags of St. James, designed specifically for women. She's looking for illicit gratification, knowing it will be her only chance before her now unwanted marriage.
An innocent aboard, Pru enters the gardens chaste and exists having partaken of illicit pleasure, not with one of the stags, but with Morley whose nighttime activity is hunting down a criminal, the Knight of Shadows. No way was Morley looking for a liaison, but something about Pru called to him. He found himself unable to resist this determined and naive siren.
The next time they meet is on Pru's wedding day. Pru covered in blood!
A fresh chapter of life opens up for Morely, an unlooked for chance of redemption could he but know it. But trust is a hard won commodity for Morley, who's come up through the street of hard knocks. Very few deserve it. Will Pru? Their physical relationship is incinindary, their emotional one barely present.
How that is turned around, how the once street urchin Cutter having gained a modicum of respectability to become Sir Carlton Morley, is freed up to reach for more, is a worthy addition to the Victorian Rebels series.
Beset with dangerous problems, nothing comes together until Pru is almost lost.
A great addition to this addictive pantheon! I feel a series reread looming!
An Xpresso Book Tours ARC via NetGalley
*****
by Kerrigan Byrne
I just adore the Victorian rebels! Byrne rocks when it comes to these edgy noir romances. Cutter/Carlton Morely's story is another tribute exhibiting Byrne's considerable talent.
Sir Carlton Morley, the Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, is the one character we don't know much about. He's driven, he's a force to be reckoned with. He's a friend who can be depended on, an enemy you'd never want.
When Morley falls into an unlooked for liaison with Prudence Goode, daughter of the lesser nobility, it's for one night only. He doesn't know who she is, he doesn't want to know and their paths will never again cross. It's a moment of unlooked for madness, going right against the hard won control that Morley normally exhibits.
Determined to have a night of freedom before she's reluctantly married to the Earl of Sutherland, whom Pru had adored until she discovered his perfidy, Pru seeks out a house of pleasure, Stags of St. James, designed specifically for women. She's looking for illicit gratification, knowing it will be her only chance before her now unwanted marriage.
An innocent aboard, Pru enters the gardens chaste and exists having partaken of illicit pleasure, not with one of the stags, but with Morley whose nighttime activity is hunting down a criminal, the Knight of Shadows. No way was Morley looking for a liaison, but something about Pru called to him. He found himself unable to resist this determined and naive siren.
The next time they meet is on Pru's wedding day. Pru covered in blood!
A fresh chapter of life opens up for Morely, an unlooked for chance of redemption could he but know it. But trust is a hard won commodity for Morley, who's come up through the street of hard knocks. Very few deserve it. Will Pru? Their physical relationship is incinindary, their emotional one barely present.
How that is turned around, how the once street urchin Cutter having gained a modicum of respectability to become Sir Carlton Morley, is freed up to reach for more, is a worthy addition to the Victorian Rebels series.
Beset with dangerous problems, nothing comes together until Pru is almost lost.
A great addition to this addictive pantheon! I feel a series reread looming!
An Xpresso Book Tours ARC via NetGalley
*****
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