Loved it! wished it came in paperback release instead of hardcover - got it from the library - couldn't wait for the paperback version . . . More Cynsters! Yum!!!
Perhaps he should call her bluff...but no matter how intently he searched her eyes, he couldn't be sure she wasn't lying. It was posssible her tale, fanciful though it was, was the unvarnished truth....
The distance between them was too great for him to be sure, but he thought her eyes snapped. For an instant, the outcome hung in the balance---whether she would retreat, or try some other, possibly more high-handed means of persuasion--but then she signed again, and smoothly rose. Dillon rose, too, surprised by her very real impulse to do something to prolong her visit.......
The distance between them was too great for him to be sure, but he thought her eyes snapped. For an instant, the outcome hung in the balance---whether she would retreat, or try some other, possibly more high-handed means of persuasion--but then she signed again, and smoothly rose. Dillon rose, too, surprised by her very real impulse to do something to prolong her visit.......
Excellent book. One of my favorites by Stephanie Laurens.
Though I thought the book was a little longer than necessary, I truly enjoyed reading it!
Not near as good as the early Cynster novels. I just found this one average.
Dillon Caxton, protege of Demon Cynster is the Keeper of the Register of all racing horses in England. His standing and aloofness make him undeniably desirable to young ladies but his attention is unfixed. Until Miss Priscilla Dalling erupts into his life. a stunning beauty, she affects Dillon as no other ever has, but what fascinates him is that this tempting lady is clearly desperate, and equally clearly lying about wanting to see the Register to fulfill the whim of an eccentric aunt!
I thought this book was just OK. I just don't like the second generation of Cynsters as much as the first. Laurens' later books are much more formulaic than the earlier ones. The sex and mystery in this one is pretty good though.
I'm only a casual follower of the Cynster novels, and I enjoyed this story as much as the others. Very similar in all ways, about 250 pages in, I wondered if I had already read it and had to check to see that I hadn't. But it is a solid historical romance with likeable characters and a bit of a mystery. Some visits from the couples from the earlier novels let us know that their happily-ever-afters are still going strong.
