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Enticed
Sara Blayne has captivated readers with her sweeping novels of Regency England. Now she gives us the enthralling story of an extraordinary woman and a determined duke whose quest for justice leads them to love...
Born to an Indian mother and an English father, Chance True-Son Quincy Ridgeway, Duke of Rivenoak, was equally skilled at hunting as he was at pursuing the fashionable ladies of the ton. But when he received word from America that his parents had been murdered, he vowed to avenge their deaths. After hearing of Pandora Featherstone's reputation as an accomplished confidential inquiry agent, Rivenoak enlisted the services of the quick-witted beauty who summoned his most primitive passions...and threatened to unlock the bitterness surrounding his heart.
With a talent for solving impossible conundrums, Pandora Featherstone was a woman who refused to follow convention. So when the Duke of Rivenoak asked her to pose as his promised bride to help him find his family's killers without arousing suspicion, she did not care about the scandal certain to tarnish their names if their secret mission was exposed. Now as Pandora and Rivenoak get closer to the truth—and to danger—they are enticed into each other's arms, and into a passionate love worth risking their lives for...
Born to an Indian mother and an English father, Chance True-Son Quincy Ridgeway, Duke of Rivenoak, was equally skilled at hunting as he was at pursuing the fashionable ladies of the ton. But when he received word from America that his parents had been murdered, he vowed to avenge their deaths. After hearing of Pandora Featherstone's reputation as an accomplished confidential inquiry agent, Rivenoak enlisted the services of the quick-witted beauty who summoned his most primitive passions...and threatened to unlock the bitterness surrounding his heart.
With a talent for solving impossible conundrums, Pandora Featherstone was a woman who refused to follow convention. So when the Duke of Rivenoak asked her to pose as his promised bride to help him find his family's killers without arousing suspicion, she did not care about the scandal certain to tarnish their names if their secret mission was exposed. Now as Pandora and Rivenoak get closer to the truth—and to danger—they are enticed into each other's arms, and into a passionate love worth risking their lives for...
352 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1999
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October 3, 2024
Victorian England - a somewhat different concept in that the son on a noble Englishman and American Indian woman is a thoroughly English Duke, who was forced to give up the ways of The People (with whom he was an adult shaman at age 15) to conform to the image his grandfather had for the next Duke of Rivenoak. He is looking for an inquiry agent, female, to help him stave off all the marriage minded females of the Ton. He wants her to pretend to be his intended, until he meets her, dressed in a Tartan sari having an indoor picnic next to the pretend reflecting pool of the Taj Mahal with her 4 nieces and nephews. Then he realized he wants to marry her for real, and keep her safe, no easy task when the murderer of his mother’s entire tribe, and half his English family, is still coming after him and all that he cares about. And his agent is extremely unlikely to be cooperative, putting herself in danger in order to protect the Duke, all the while carrying the terrible secret that her brother might be partially complicit to the murder of the Duke’s people. I loved the storyline, but there were a couple of things that caused me to deduct a star. The language was excessively verbose, the stereotyping a bit over the top, and the story was entirely predictable. There were, at least in this 1999 edition, there were several editing errors.
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