All About Seduction
Katy Madison
Avon, Oct 25 2011, $7.99
ISBN 9780062017352
Caroline Broadhurst has been married for fifteen years to an abusive mill owner who paid her family for her. Now with no heir and learning he is sterile, Broadhurst orders his wife to bed an aristocratic friend of her brother. She is appalled as her husband parades the who’s who of decadence passed her. However, Carline is an obedient wife so will do what is demanded of her even if she loathes sleeping with any of these rakes or for that matter her odious mate.
Caroline is attracted to mill engineer Jack Applegate who has loved her from afar since he first saw his employer’s wife. When Jack is injured at the mill, Caroline takes him to her manor house to heal. He learns of Broadhurst’s insidious scheme and volunteers to be the sire of her offspring. However, her husband learns of her duplicity with an unacceptable middle class worker so plots revenge as the cuckold spouse.
With a nod to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, readers will enjoy this entertaining Regency romance. The exciting story line is character driven mostly by Caroline who is refreshing with her pathetic inability to break out of what society and her family expects of a woman. Although over the top of the Tower especially once Jack is injured, fans will enjoy this engaging nineteenth century version of the Miller’s Tale.
Harriet Klausner
Katy Madison
Avon, Oct 25 2011, $7.99
ISBN 9780062017352
Caroline Broadhurst has been married for fifteen years to an abusive mill owner who paid her family for her. Now with no heir and learning he is sterile, Broadhurst orders his wife to bed an aristocratic friend of her brother. She is appalled as her husband parades the who’s who of decadence passed her. However, Carline is an obedient wife so will do what is demanded of her even if she loathes sleeping with any of these rakes or for that matter her odious mate.
Caroline is attracted to mill engineer Jack Applegate who has loved her from afar since he first saw his employer’s wife. When Jack is injured at the mill, Caroline takes him to her manor house to heal. He learns of Broadhurst’s insidious scheme and volunteers to be the sire of her offspring. However, her husband learns of her duplicity with an unacceptable middle class worker so plots revenge as the cuckold spouse.
With a nod to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, readers will enjoy this entertaining Regency romance. The exciting story line is character driven mostly by Caroline who is refreshing with her pathetic inability to break out of what society and her family expects of a woman. Although over the top of the Tower especially once Jack is injured, fans will enjoy this engaging nineteenth century version of the Miller’s Tale.
Harriet Klausner
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