eyes.2c Reviews

The Lady Hellion (Wicked Deceptions #3 ) by Joanna Shupe   This has it all!   Intrigue, spying, murdered young women from brothels, tormented Dukes, feisty women and scorching romance! I really enjoyed the story line; the determination of Lady Sophie; the struggle for Damien Beecham, Viscount Quint, to understand that he was entitled to happiness. His gritted determination to not let himself even feel, let alone love, because he couldn't bear to punish the woman he loved, and to have her saddled to man with a mind that was losing its reason. I applauded Sophie for her spirited commitment to change, to love and life and mostly to Quint. An excellent read! A NetGalley ARC

The Harlot Countess (Wicked Deceptions #2) by Joanna Shupe Rotter! Cad! I don't know who I was angrier at in the opening scenes--the bounder, the trusted friend, or the unsympathetic virulent females of the ton.     Maggie has suffered, been attacked and she is the one who has fingers pointed at her, not the bounder who caused the problem. And then her so called more-than-friend turned his back on her? Well, shame on him and on the rest of the hyaena pack masquerading as the ton! Ten years later Maggie is back in London, using her reputation as the 'Irish harlot' to ensure her freedom, harbouring a heady secret life as the painter and salacious cartoonist Lemarc and quietly working to improve the lot of prostitutes. Simon Barrett, Earl of Winchester has never stopped wanting Maggie. He turned his back on her once. He does not intend to do so again. Certainly they have the occasional very steamy and heady interaction, drawn as they are to each other. Unfortunatel...