Lord of Scoundrels

Lord of Scoundrels

Author: Loretta Chase

Publisher: Avon (1995)

ISBN: 0380776162

pages: 384

genre: romance

subgenre: racy regencies

4 (out of 5) STARS

Annotation: Jessica Trent arrives in Paris to save her younger brother from the influence of the wild Marquess of Dain. But she ends up attracted to him instead.

Summary: They call him many names, but Angelic isn't one of them...

Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain, is big, bad, and dangerous to know. No respectable woman would have anything to do with the "Band and Blight of the Ballisters" - and he wants nothing to do with respectable women. He's determined to continue doing what he does best - sin and sin again - and all that's going swimmingly, thank you... until the day a shop door opens and she walks in.

She's too intelligent to fall for the worst man in the world...

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. If saving him - and with him, her family and future - means taking on the devil himself, she won't back down. The trouble is, the devil in question is so shockingly irresistible, and the person who needs the most saving is - herself! (www.goodreads.com)

Evaluation: I have not read very many romances but I did enjoy this one. I like the Victorian England setting where everyone must be proper but really people are just the same as now with passions and interests and temptations. The two main characters also had the type of love/hate relationship that I greatly love in a romance.

Read-a-likes:

The Gamble by Joan Wolf

Miranda by Susan Wiggs

Web of Love by Mary Balogh

One Perfect Rose by Mary Jo Putney

Virtue by Jane Feather