Star Crossed Seduction
Jenny Brown
Avon, Aug 30 2011, $7.99
ISBN: 9780061976063
In 1820 Dragoon Captain Miles Trevelyan has just retuned home to find a proper “military” bride after a decade stationed in India. One week in London and the bored Miles wants to go “home” as he was only fifteen when he enlisted following his father’s death.
A tiny girl sells Miles a poorly drawn picture of a broadsword while all in black Temperance “Tem” Smith picks his pocket. However, Miles catches her in the act, but is frozen when he sees her. She flees knowing he saw her.
Miles cannot forget the woman in black and searches for her. She loathes herself for feeling passion for a dragoon as his unit killed her lover. While his mom seeks advice for her son’s marital hunt from an astrologer who runs a homeless shelter for young women, Tem learns her dead lover lives in America. Trev finds her and persuades her to be his mistress. As lust turns to love, trust remains difficult for this pair of Scorpios to accept.
The second astrological Regency romance (see Lord Lightning) stars an intriguing pair who meet when she steals his wallet. The story line starts slow until the second encounter speeds up the pace as the two Scorpios battle one another and their respective hearts. Anchored by real historical tidbits interwoven into the plot, readers will enjoy this fun nineteenth century tale as love is in the stars.
Harriet Klausner
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Thanks for your very kind words about Star Crossed Seduction. You wrote "broadsword" when I believe you meant "broadsheet" above.
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