"terrific "T Me" Regency romance"
In 1825, his dying housekeeper and friend Mary asks her
employer Viscount Ravenswood to introduce her daughter
Hannah to the infamous hermit the Duchess of Clairborne.
Instead he offers to raise the child as his own though he
knows she is a by-product of a rape, but Mary gets him to
agree to her deathbed request to take the lass to
the "Angel" as she calls Calantha. He considers Calantha
as evil because her late husband, the monstrous duke,
raped Mary and sired Hannah and she did nothing to protect
their servant. Calantha does not want any part of the man known by the
Ton as Lord Beast because she fears her attraction to
Jared. However, he refuses to back down as honor demands
he complete his quest though he too finds he cannot ignore
the Angel who somehow is in his every conscious thought.
As they fall in love over a child and roses, someone is
trying to hurt Hannah with all the evidence pointing at
Calantha. The third "T Me" Regency romance (see TOUCH ME and TEMPT
ME) is a terrific tale starring a hero whose
father "stole" him at birth from his mother and sister,
and a woman he initially considers a she-demon. As they
fall in love, Calantha, a survivor of a nasty relationship
just like Jared is, risks all to keep Hannah safe while
her beloved wonders if she could be the culprit as he
still struggles with her being an Angel. If they trust in
love they might save Hannah's life, but Calantha believes
he loved Mary and Jared fears his heart is blinding his
head from the reality of an avenging angel. TAKE ME is a
superb ending to a fine historical trilogy. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 26, 2006
SummaryFrom the national bestselling author of Touch Me
and Tempt Me comes a spellbinding romance of secrets
and scandal, and the heartbreaking risks of true love...
Jared, Viscount Ravenswood, has no choice but to honor the
deathbed wish of his ailing servant. All she asks is that
Jared introduce her soon-to-be orphaned daughter to the
notorious and reclusive Calantha, Duchess of Clairborne. No
ordinary request, for this is no ordinary child. She is, in
fact, the key to the Duchess's most private secrets, and to
Jared's own past—one that has branded him Lord Beast
among the ton.
But when the Viscount meets the Duchess, he finds not the
pitiless dowager he expected, but a lovely and wary
angel—survivor of a brutal marriage left now with only
her roses and the breathtaking mystery that is her life. For
Jared, to solve it is to fall in love, to make her believe
in the impossible, and to follow the promise that comes with
the most intimate whisper of all... Take me...
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