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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780380811076
ISBN number: 0380811073
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: February 01, 2003
Publishing house: Avon
Release Date: January 28, 2003
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What is the price of love?
Nick Gentry is reputed to be the most skillful lover in all England. Known for solving delicate situations, he is hired to seek out Miss Charlotte Howard. He believes his mission will be easily accomplished -- but that was before he met the lady in question.
For instead of a willful female, he discovers one in desperate circumstances, hiding from a man who would destroy her very soul. So Nick shockingly offers her a very different kind of proposition -- one he has never offered before.
He asks her to be his bride.
And he knows that this will be much more than a union in name only. For he senses what Charlotte does not yet know -- that her appetite for sensuality matches his own. But what Nick learns surprises him. For while London's most notorious lover might claim Charlotte's body, he quickly discovers it will take much more than passion to win her love.
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Setting: London, 1839
Sensuality: 9
Bow Street runner Nick Gentry is a complex man with a dark and tortured history, and beautiful Charlotte Howard is a woman running from her past. Neither Nick or Charlotte are wholly what they seem, for each have secrets too painful to reveal, and each has chosen to hide behind a false identity. Once they’re drawn into each other’s worlds, they’re forced to face difficult truths and are compelled to acknowledge the passion that burns between them. For Charlotte, 'the challenge of taming him, matching his powerful will with her own, was too tempting to resist.' For Nick, 'if he could not have her, this endless feeling of being hungry, unsatisfied, cold, would never leave him.' But will their love be enough to defeat the obsessed nobleman who covets Charlotte and the thirst for danger that tempts Nick, or is their future together doomed by the pain of their past?
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas has another winner on her hands with this follow-up to Lady Sophia’s Lover. Fans and new readers alike will love the fast-paced plot, compelling characters, high-octane sensuality, and the well-drawn English setting. --Lois Faye Dyer
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My favorite of this series, and I have loved the previous two! The description is handled by other reviewers, I will only add that I think the characters are well drawn and have been carried extremely well from book to book. Lisa Kleypas has a number of really well done series in historical romance. She has that special "it" that keeps readers coming back. Nick is one of those characters who raises your heart rate!
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I'm looking for great stories with creativity. The potential was here, but it wasn't developed as I would have liked. I enjoyed the characters Nick and Lottie.
THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY:
Nick was orphaned as a child, lived on the streets and was abused in a prison ship. He became a famous crime lord. Then he became a good guy by joining the Bow Street Runners for three years. Because of his childhood abuse, he feared being touched by anyone and never had sex with a woman. At age 24, he goes to a brothel and selects the madam as his choice. She is touched by his manner and becomes his lover and teacher for three years. She ends their relationship saying it's time for him to move on. He still has no desire for other women, until he sees Lottie.
Lottie's parents needed money, so they promised her/sold her to Lord Radnor as a young girl. He would visit their home and have private sessions with Lottie in a locked room in which he fondled her. He paid for her to attend a school where the teachers followed specific rules he wanted for her. She was deprived of food when he thought she was gaining weight. Her hands were tied to a chair if he thought she fidgeted too much. She was told not to speak unless her thoughts were complete sentences. His goal was to make her into his vision of perfection. She ran away from the school and was in hiding for two years working as a companion to an older woman. Radnor hired Nick to find her.
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I loved the interaction of Nick and Lottie when they very first met and up until they married. When Lottie and her employer Marcus learn that Nick was hired to take her back to Radnor, Marcus offers to marry Lottie to save her from Radnor. Before she makes a decision she asks for a private moment with Nick. In that scene, she offers to be his mistress if he will protect her from Radnor. He asks to sample her wares before he decides, so she allows him to kiss and fondle her. I got the feeling that he was doing this to see if his body could be attracted to her and respond to her since he had never been drawn to a woman before. He did respond, and as a result he offered to marry her instead of having her as his mistress. Maybe I missed the author's intentions here, but I enjoyed my interpretation.
I was disappointed with the last 60% of the book, after they married. I was hoping for something more insidious from Lord Radnor, maybe something like stalking her, kidnapping her and holding her for a longer period, or maybe kidnapping her before she married Nick and continuing his sick attempts to make her over. I was hoping to see Nick's talents for searching and overcoming bad guys to find her, get her away from Radnor and exact a proper revenge. This was my own hopeful imagination wanting something a little different. Instead the story during the last part of the book was ordinary, predictable, standard romance fare. She did get taken by Radnor but she got away through no special talent of anyone, but by luck.
Lottie's parents arranged a marriage for her with Radnor. They received a lot of money for themselves. Granted, many arranged marriages are based on financial motivation, but in this story the parents were almost evil. When Nick offered to pay their debts and support them financially in the future, they refused. Since their refusal was not rational and did not make sense, I saw them as additional villains. Therefore, I wanted to see what other evil deeds they would do. The author didn't pursue this line, other than one more event which wasn't enough for me.
Sexual language: moderate. Number of sex scenes: eight. Setting: 1839 to 1842 London and other areas in England. Copyright: 2003. Genre: historical romance.
For a list of my reviews of other Lisa Kleypas books, see my 4.5 star review of "Sugar Daddy" posted 8/19/08.
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Nick Gentry is a man with a criminal past who has been forced by his magistrate brother-in-law to become a Bow Street Runner. He's currently on a private commission for a lord who is hunting a run-away fiancee. Nick is good, even relentless, at whatever he turns his task to, so he finds her... but does he have to return her to the other man?
There is always something intriguing about a man with a dark past falling in love and possibly being redeemed. Although there's nothing too new or extraordinary here, Nick makes for a good hero with a bad reputation. And Charlotte is a good match, unflappable, with inner strength, she is able to take her new situation in stride. Their love story is sweet.
Sadly, there isn't much for Nick and Charlotte to fight for or against. Yes, they need to overcome their own fears, particularly Nick, and let themselves love, but they don't throw up many obstacles, which, for a change, is good. But the nasty lord, Charlotte's horrible parents and society in general also aren't enough of a threat. Nor is the denouement that dramatic.
However, I still loved both of the main characters and was moved by their love story. Overall it was a good romance with two appealing characters.
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I really enjoy Lisa Kleypas books. She gets the chemistry right and her characters are all strong. I liked "It Happened One Autumn" and "Then Came You" better.
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I wont go into an entire synoposis of the story, there are enough reviews that have that, so I will just say that I could not finish the book. Nick just came off as creepy, and I would have preferred more back story on Lottie than on him. They didnt click and I became very bored with their story.
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