Seven Years to Sin
Sylvia Day
Kensington Brava, Sep 1 2011, $14.00
ISBN: 9780758231741
Lady Jessica Sheffield is marrying Viscount Benedict Sinclair. She looks forward to leaving behind her violent abusive father though she worries about her younger sister Hester. She is walking her dog when she sees Alistair Caulfield, an unwanted fourth son, having sex. He notices her and asks her to stay, which she does for awhile. She tells Benedict what she saw and seduces him into not waiting for the exchange of their vows.
Seven years later, Benedict has been dead for a year. His brother Michael arranges for Jessica to travel to the Caribbean so that she can look over the estate Benedict left her. Alistair meets his friend Michael and learns that Jessica is traveling on one of his ships. Excited, he tells Michael he will escort her across the ocean. Alistair explains to Jessica he owns the ship and made arrangements to escort her after talking to Michael. She enjoys the dinner discussion about business as women normally are not privy to such talk. Alastair offers to help her understand the plantation she owns in exchange for her assisting him in his adjustment to the Ton now that two of his older brothers are dead and he is the spare. He hides from her that he loves her and she is why he stayed away from England.
This is a delightful erotic Regency romance starring a unique lead. The heroine’s late husband was a caring person and their relationship one of love that Alistair recognized and envied. Although the subplot involving her sister, her sibling’s husband and her late spouse’s brother is distracting, readers will enjoy this fresh historical as love blossoms on the high seas.
Harriet Klausner
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