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    <![CDATA[<blockquote> <p> They proved their bravery fighting for His Majesty's Secret Service and were rewarded with brides of great beauty and breeding. But one member of the Bastion Club has remained a bachelor . . . until now. </p> <p> &quot;Christian, I need your help. There is no one else I can turn to . . . L.&quot; </p> </blockquote> <p> When Christian Allardyce, 6th Marquess of Dearne, reads those words, his world turns upside down. Lady Letitia Randall is a woman like no other, and the day he left her behind to fight for king and country was the most difficult of his life. He never forgot the feel of her lips against his, but never expects to see her again. Yet now she seeks his help, and Christian knows he will not resist her plea. </p> <p> Letitia believes that Christian abandoned her when she needed him most, and she hates to call on his aid. But to clear her brother's name, she has sworn to use every weapon at her command, even if it means seducing her ex-lover. Yet all the while, Christian is waging a war of his own—a campaign of pure pleasure and sweet revenge that will take them both beyond the edge of desire. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is about the same quality as the other Bastion Club novels - that is to say, mediocre at best.  <br/>It's a good thing that Stephanie Laurens includes a mystery to solve in the plot, because I don't think she does a very good job of building up romantic suspense between characters.  Too much s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32561244">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<blockquote> <p> They proved their bravery fighting for His Majesty's Secret Service and were rewarded with brides of great beauty and breeding. But one member of the Bastion Club has remained a bachelor . . . until now. </p> <p> &quot;Christian, I need your help. There is no one else I can turn to . . . L.&quot; </p> </blockquote> <p> When Christian Allardyce, 6th Marquess of Dearne, reads those words, his world turns upside down. Lady Letitia Randall is a woman like no other, and the day he left her behind to fight for king and country was the most difficult of his life. He never forgot the feel of her lips against his, but never expects to see her again. Yet now she seeks his help, and Christian knows he will not resist her plea. </p> <p> Letitia believes that Christian abandoned her when she needed him most, and she hates to call on his aid. But to clear her brother's name, she has sworn to use every weapon at her command, even if it means seducing her ex-lover. Yet all the while, Christian is waging a war of his own—a campaign of pure pleasure and sweet revenge that will take them both beyond the edge of desire. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've just finished rereading this book for a second time. I'm sorry to see that all the Bastian club members are now married but there is at least one more story to tell, and perhaps, two. <br/><br/>I've read reviews elsewhere that complain that the book is a bit slow and perhaps it is but this is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47586034">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been slowing down on reading Stephanie Laurens, since she has joined the writers who think frequent sentence fragmentation and unnecessary and additional paragraphs add something to the writing.  As far as I can tell, it just makes the writing choppy.  I wanted to at least finish the Bastion ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31821103">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<blockquote> <p> They proved their bravery fighting for His Majesty's Secret Service and were rewarded with brides of great beauty and breeding. But one member of the Bastion Club has remained a bachelor . . . until now. </p> <p> &quot;Christian, I need your help. There is no one else I can turn to . . . L.&quot; </p> </blockquote> <p> When Christian Allardyce, 6th Marquess of Dearne, reads those words, his world turns upside down. Lady Letitia Randall is a woman like no other, and the day he left her behind to fight for king and country was the most difficult of his life. He never forgot the feel of her lips against his, but never expects to see her again. Yet now she seeks his help, and Christian knows he will not resist her plea. </p> <p> Letitia believes that Christian abandoned her when she needed him most, and she hates to call on his aid. But to clear her brother's name, she has sworn to use every weapon at her command, even if it means seducing her ex-lover. Yet all the while, Christian is waging a war of his own—a campaign of pure pleasure and sweet revenge that will take them both beyond the edge of desire. </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<blockquote> <p> They proved their bravery fighting for His Majesty's Secret Service and were rewarded with brides of great beauty and breeding. But one member of the Bastion Club has remained a bachelor . . . until now. </p> <p> &quot;Christian, I need your help. There is no one else I can turn to . . . L.&quot; </p> </blockquote> <p> When Christian Allardyce, 6th Marquess of Dearne, reads those words, his world turns upside down. Lady Letitia Randall is a woman like no other, and the day he left her behind to fight for king and country was the most difficult of his life. He never forgot the feel of her lips against his, but never expects to see her again. Yet now she seeks his help, and Christian knows he will not resist her plea. </p> <p> Letitia believes that Christian abandoned her when she needed him most, and she hates to call on his aid. But to clear her brother's name, she has sworn to use every weapon at her command, even if it means seducing her ex-lover. Yet all the while, Christian is waging a war of his own—a campaign of pure pleasure and sweet revenge that will take them both beyond the edge of desire. </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<blockquote> <p> They proved their bravery fighting for His Majesty's Secret Service and were rewarded with brides of great beauty and breeding. But one member of the Bastion Club has remained a bachelor . . . until now. </p> <p> &quot;Christian, I need your help. There is no one else I can turn to . . . L.&quot; </p> </blockquote> <p> When Christian Allardyce, 6th Marquess of Dearne, reads those words, his world turns upside down. Lady Letitia Randall is a woman like no other, and the day he left her behind to fight for king and country was the most difficult of his life. He never forgot the feel of her lips against his, but never expects to see her again. Yet now she seeks his help, and Christian knows he will not resist her plea. </p> <p> Letitia believes that Christian abandoned her when she needed him most, and she hates to call on his aid. But to clear her brother's name, she has sworn to use every weapon at her command, even if it means seducing her ex-lover. Yet all the while, Christian is waging a war of his own—a campaign of pure pleasure and sweet revenge that will take them both beyond the edge of desire. </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<blockquote> <p> They proved their bravery fighting for His Majesty's Secret Service and were rewarded with brides of great beauty and breeding. But one member of the Bastion Club has remained a bachelor . . . until now. </p> <p> &quot;Christian, I need your help. There is no one else I can turn to . . . L.&quot; </p> </blockquote> <p> When Christian Allardyce, 6th Marquess of Dearne, reads those words, his world turns upside down. Lady Letitia Randall is a woman like no other, and the day he left her behind to fight for king and country was the most difficult of his life. He never forgot the feel of her lips against his, but never expects to see her again. Yet now she seeks his help, and Christian knows he will not resist her plea. </p> <p> Letitia believes that Christian abandoned her when she needed him most, and she hates to call on his aid. But to clear her brother's name, she has sworn to use every weapon at her command, even if it means seducing her ex-lover. Yet all the while, Christian is waging a war of his own—a campaign of pure pleasure and sweet revenge that will take them both beyond the edge of desire. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me a little while to get into this book but once I did I really enjoyed it. It's set in the time period I love most .. anything from the 'olden' times really sucks me in. The beginning is kind of slow, as your trying to get used to who all of the characters are, but then it really starts to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67223779">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up at the airport in Las Vegas out of desperation after missing my flight. To put it simply, this book is absolutely terrible. I passed it off to a friend who is a fan of earlier books by author Laurens and she thought it was awful too. Went directly to the donation pile. Really an awful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40695485">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this book is super interesting to me at times i may be at a loss, but I believe that's because of the vocabulary that they use in it and they speak as though this story had took place around the 1700 or 1800's. I say that because they talk about a certain family, the Vuax's, in a high manner....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75549056">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book had a very slow pace and seemed to drag on.  I had a hard time finishing it, and admit that I skimmed through most of the last 100 pages.  My main qualm with the book is that is turned into a whodunit mystery, where the H/H along with some spy friends run around London trying to solve a mur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74425770">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Regency romance with a who-done-it mystery.  The predictable: both thought the other had abandoned them, reunion, finding the truth. I like Laurens but I felt this had a lot of sizzling sex.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was ok. I was basically speed reading once I solved the mystery. Even the romance between Christian and Letitia did not hold my focus.<br/>Unlike the other books in the series, this book seemed to focus more on the reunion of Christian and Letitia rather than the mystery(which was solved by the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27153498">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This author keeps your interest with all of her inventive story lines.  Although a lot of explicit sex this can be eliminated by reading the first sentence of each paragraph until you get back to the initial story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the better books in this series.  The character development is strong although the book's ending is a bit too contrived.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has a great element of mystery to it!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  This book is a simple mystery story that hinges on characters continually saying, in effect, &quot;I know the answer to your question, but am not going to tell you because I feel it isn't important&quot;, thereby provoking both the readers curiosity and another few chapters worth of fill.<br/> Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32635122">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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