"Beauty and the Beast?"
When Jared, Lord Viscount wants to honor the deathbed wish
of his servant and friend Mary, but to do so could put an
innocent child in harms way. Hannah, even though he is not
the birth father, is his child in every way that matters in
his heart, but will the widow of the man responsible for
making Mary pregnant turn her back on Hannah. It has been over a year since the death of her husband, but
Calantha has no plans to ever marry again. Instead she
plans on raising her roses, and living a quiet life. That
life is turned upside down when she meets Jared a man
society has labeled the Beast, but she has every reason to
know that just because the package is nice it doesn't mean
that the inside isn't. Jared has his work cut out for him to convince Calantha to
take another chance on marriage, but will it be over before
it even begins when someone tries to hurt Hannah and all
clues lead to his future wife. Ever since Lucy Monroe started this series I have been
waiting for Jared's story, and TAKE ME more then makes up
for the wait. Jared and Calantha are both wounded
individuals who have reasons to be cautious around others
but their mutual attraction has them asking if they are
ready to take a chance on love. Ms Monroe is one of the few authors who I will read no
matter what she writes and TAKE ME is a good reason why.
You do not have to read the first two books in this series
in order to read TAKE ME, but after you finish you will be
running to the store to get the other two. Barb Hicks
Reviewed by Barb Hicks
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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