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Title: To Desire A Devil
Author/website: Elizabeth Hoyt
340 pages
Publisher: Vision
Publication date: October ’09
Genre: Historical romance
Would I recommend it: Undecided
Journal notes: It was just OK for me. I never really warmed up to Beatrice or Reynaud. Sparks didn’t fly and sheets didn’t burn up. At some point in the story these relationships usually send skyrockets blazing forth but I didn’t get the anticipated fireworks. Here’s my problem: I don’t read much in this genre and the authors I do try I always compare to Lisa Klepyas. I love Lisa’s historical romances. That may not be fair but that’s the way it is.

NOTHING IS MORE INTOXICATING-
Reynaud St. Aubyn has spent the last seven years in hellish captivity. Now half mad with fever he bursts into his ancestral home and demands his due. Can this wild-looking man truly be the last earl’s heir, thought murdered by Indians years ago?

OR DANGEROUS-
Beatrice Corning, the niece of the present earl, is a proper English miss. But she has a secret: No real man has ever excited her more than the handsome youth in the portrait in her uncle’s home. Suddenly, that very man is here, in the flesh-and luring her into his bed.

THAN SURRENDERING TO A DEVIL.
Only Beatrice can see past Reynaud’s savagery to the noble man inside. For his part, Reynaud is drawn to this lovely lady, even as he is suspicious of her loyalty to her uncle. But can Beatrice’s love tame a man who will stop at nothing to regain his title-even if it means sacrificing her innocence?

(To Desire A Devil was provided to me by Anna of Hachette Book Group USA. I was not paid and will be donating this book to my local library )

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