Unhandsome, he knows that no woman wants him. He is formalising his betrothal and trying with little success to forget about a secretary that has no right being female. But the Earl has another reason for going to London. But when she realises that he is going to visit a brothel in London to take care of his ‘manly’ desires, Anna sees red and decides to take advantage of the opportunity to also take care of her ‘womanly’ desires with the Earl as her unknowing lover. Secretaries are always male never female as Anna well knows but the real downfall of her career is the realisation that she is falling in love with Edward de Raaf the Earl. For the widowed Anna Wren, that means taking a job as female secretary for the Earl of Swartingham. Yet, still not enough of a letdown not to check out the other books in the series and, after completing that task, revisting To Desire a Devil.There comes a time in a womanrsquo s life when she must do the unthinkable and find employment.
Huh? Although I desperately wanted to like the formulaic plucky heroine, there was a chemistry there missing from me and I kept thinking “this chick-a-dee has a screw loose if she is seriously in love with a portrait!” I mean, one thing if she crushes on him like so many of us gals do on actors etc (hello, flavor of the month!), but her obsessive ramblings start to sound a bit freaky deaky stalker like.ĭefinitely a disappointment based on past readings of Hoyt’s.
The next issue is that we are supposed to believe this otherwise sassy and smart lady is in love with a portrait. Without launching into a spoiler, let’s just say a lot of flashbacks don’t help the pace of the novel (note to self and other writers: flashbacks stink!). That means, I spent some time trying to guess things from context rather than whizzing away at reading.įor instance, the hero’s story was really confusing and hard to get in to. Some of what is contained in these pages makes little (or less) sense to me than it might’ve had I read the series in sequence. Because that means by the time I acquire all the others in the series (in this case three), I will need a refresher on the final chapter. So here is one of those unhappy occasions when I stumble on to a book and discover its the final one in a series.
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