"A fine Georgian paranormal romance"

In 1720, Lucien Viscount Hastings has returned home but nothing feels right although his father insists he is his son George. While on a grand tour of Italy, an unknown assailant attacked him costing him much of his memory. Worse ten months ago someone murdered his beloved pregnant wife Francesca; he lives to solve the homicide so as to enact vengeance.

His father has arranged a marriage for Lucien with Rosalind. Lucien tries to persuade her to look elsewhere for a spouse, but she feels she has no choice as she has been branded a witch. Unbeknownst to Lucien she "sees" the spouse he cherishes so holds no hope beyond friendship for herself. He even rejects that until someone from the shadows threatens both of them. As he tries to keep his second wife from succumbing to the fate of his first spouse, Lucien falls in love with Rosalind; she reciprocates but has no hope for he feels guilty for surviving, for caring for someone else and for knowing women he loves die.

THE SECOND SEDUCTION is a fine Georgian paranormal romance starring a scarred hero as women have not done well when associated with him and his perfect counterpoint who has no options but to except him. The story line is mostly typical of the sub-genre, but refreshed by the heroine's second sight skills used cleverly at selective moments and the mystery of who killed Lucien's wife and what happened to his sister who vanished when she was six years old.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 16, 2005

Summary

Though the gifts of second sight and a loving heart have made her an extraordinary healer, Rosalind finds her talent has also branded her a misfit and an outcast. When a marriage is arranged for her with the mysterious Viscount Hastings, heir to Castle St. Clare, she embraces what she sees as the last chance for a normal and secure future.

Lucien, Viscount Hastings, back from the dead and safe in the bosom of his family, has no time for the chit his family has arranged for him to marry. There is no room in his life, or his heart, for anything but vengeance for the death of his beloved first wife, Francesca.

Threats echo in every crash of the waves beating upon the cliffs on which Castle St. Clare stands. Whispers linger in the corridors during the still of the night. Malicious eyes track every move made by the spurned bride and her scarred, but handsome would-be husband.

Is there a chance for two lonely hearts?

A dark past collides with the present, bringing together family, truth and . . .

The Second Seduction . . .