perjantai 10. elokuuta 2018

Karen Hawkins: How to capture a countess

Karen Hawkinsin historiallisessa viihderomaanissa haudotaan kostoa ja selvitellään ihmissuhdekiemuroita melkoisen reipasotteisesti: How to capture a countess (Pocket Books, 2012; ISBN 978-1-4516-8517-6).



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At seventeen, Rose fell wildly in love with Lord Alton Sinclair, known as Lord Sin for his wicked ways. Stung by his indifference, the starry-eyed girl tried to win an illicit kiss, but then panicked and pushed the notorious rakehell into a fountain. Leaving Lord Sin floating among the lily pads to the mocking laughter of his peers, Rose escaped back to the obscurity of the Scottish countryside.

Six years later, Sin convinces his aunt, the Duchess of Roxburghe, to invite Rose to her annual house party, where he plans to get revenge by making Rose the laughingstock of polite society. To his astonishment, he finds she has become an alluring woman who threatens to turn the tables on his nefarious plans. Thus Sin and Rose begin an epic battle of the sexes that becomes more passionate at every turn. Eventually, one will have to surrender ... but to vengeance? Or to love’s deepest passion?

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