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This really could have used a prologue...I've forgotten nearly every detail of Lavay, Merchant and Le Chat - just the over arcing plot. And now, well, it might have been useful to do a re-read for this particular book.

Given that Elise already has one child, how can she be so stupid as to have unprotected sex?

Delightful so far!

It is Not "she lay her head" because there is an Object. The head is laid. Therefore it is LAID her head. (!!!!!) It's really such a simple rule. If you are laying something Else-- eggs, dishes, a part of your own body--then it's lay, laid, laid. If you, or some other thing, are lying down, by your own self, Then, and Only then is it lie, lay, lain. Sheesh!

Reading along enjoying the book and then a song pops up. I hope there's nothing important in there because I'm honestly skipping them all.

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Did I accidentally pick up The Hobbit? What's with all the songs?!

Julie Anne Long has such a way with an intense scene. *sighs* So loving this.

Philippe hadn’t thought. He simply hadn’t thought. He’d simply bolted through the dark, like an animal sprung from a trap, because he would do anything for her. He simply could not differentiate what was best for her or for himself, because they seemed one and the same. And he supposed that was what happened when someone else was your heart. You couldn’t help what you did.

Her hands slid up to latch around his neck . . . . . . and somehow he was falling; no, he was floating. He wasn’t memories or demands, he wasn’t duty or revenge; he thought he was his purest self, perhaps for the first time ever.

It was just . . . She stopped. The break in his voice when he’d said the word “home.” That little break was very like a crack in his facade through which light poured. How she longed to see through to the other side.

FINALLY.

I just finished it Started with a Scandal. 4/3/2015

This has a real Jane Eyre vibe about it - brooding, wounded hero, feisty housekeeper and a sexual charge which could power a small principality.

I am LOVING Elise and Philippe's story!!

You guys. The ending is a Lyon scene.I'm about to go full white girl and break out a "I literally can't even."
Weird thing bugging me, the somewhat villainous woman wears a blue gown and her color seems to be blue in the story while our hero imagines our heroine in red and buys her a red ribbon, so the lady on the cover should be in red, right?
I don't even know how I notice or why I think about these things :/

He regarded her thoughtfully, and something about that look traveled up her spine like a trailed finger.

So much for not flirting. Because she most certainly was. In a reel, if someone extended an arm, one took it. It was the polite thing to do.

The saying "the air fairly crackles when they are in a room together" applies mightily to this couple

Still reading books from August. This doesn't come out until March 31st, 2015.

I am loving the way this story spools out very slowly, but in ways that are compelling.