He reached out and wrapped his monster hands about her waist and lifted her straight up until her wet, sulky face was even with his own. A introdução de um segundo conflito na segunda metade do romance trouxe ainda mais emoção a estória. Oh, it is the God awful bastard of his running naked around the place while trying to climb draperies (he is 8!

It features a strong female heroine, a characteristic that Chase has become known for including in her romances. It didn’t matter than Bertie was losing everything in his attempt to live the same self serving, self indulgent lifestyle that Dain did. Jess’s brother has been cast under the spell of Dain and Jess is here to negotiate with the scoundrel. She speaks her mind, she doesn’t play ignorant about delicate matters and she admits her interest Dain almost the instant she feels it. I won’t spoil it for those weirdos like me who haven’t read this before but legitimately at 35% through I found religion because god do I love Jess so much.No respectable woman would have anything to do with the "Bane and Blight of the Ballisters"—and he wants nothing to do with respectable women.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil,’” he read. She is fighting her growing desire for the amoral rogue but destiny interferes and has different plans for them. And if you are tricked in to having a kid even thou it is not the kids fault-why should you be held responsible? To her, while Lord of Scoundrels is a Regency romance novel and thus less apt to depict the types of economic pairings seen in many contemporary romances, Kamblé argues that Dain's repeated monetary promises still contain "echoes of the kind of wealth, monetary security, and financial reward that the heroes of Harlequin Mills and Boon promise as husbands".Sebastian Ballister is a strong determined and successful man who through lifes bitter experience has built an invisible wall around himself, no one is allowed to get close to the real man - Jessica Trent is also strong and determined but very tenacious when dealing with Sebastian in trying to achieve her set goal. This book will reside on my bedside table for months or longer, so I’ll have it near to reread a favorite bit of dialogue, a particularly wonderful scene or simply experience the same heartfelt emotion it evokes in me one more time. Bertie sees Dain as a hero and tried to emulate all of his bad habits, to the point of financial ruin of his family.

By the end of the book, I totally and utterly besotted with Dain and felt for him even though some of his thoughts were truly horridly misogynistic. You have Jessica Trent who has grown into a capable young woman who is determined to save her brother from the now grown Sebastian’s evil influence.If saving him—and with him, her family and future—means taking on the devil himself, she won’t back down.

Jessica Trent is a determined young woman, and she’s going to drag her imbecile brother off the road to ruin, no matter what it takes. Since her reputation was on the brink of ruin, she went after him relentlessly, not in the pursuing sense but in the "to ruin his life" sense.

Jessica Trent and her grandmother travel to Paris to rescue her not-so-bright younger brother Bertie from the bad influence of Dain. This time, he felt as lost and helpless as that little boy had been, trying to understand why his Heavenly Father had made him wrong inside and out and wondering what prayer must be prayed, what penance must be paid, to make him right.