Helpful Score: 1
There is no confusing Thea Devine's work with any one elses. She is at the forefront in descriptive eroticism. There is sex galore, everywhere!!! SECRET PLEASURES traces one woman's road from a quick and unexpected violent act making her a widow (and the chief suspect) through treachery and debauchery and then back to some degree of normalcy. This book questions family commitment and loyalties. It also looks into the secret night lives of "respectable" people. The reader is taken into "gentlemen's" clubs consisting of rooms where anything one wishes can be obtained if he (or she) can pay. SECRET PLEASURES is a different kind of book. It doesn't really fall into what we consider romance. There is not much emotional attachment and the storyline is farfetched. But I must admit, it was hard to put down.
Helpful Score: 1
What to say. This story was sexual, sensual, romantic, mysterious - with many twists & turns - but mostly haunting (and not the ghostly kind; the kind that will stick in your memory for a long time) The storyline meanders along, but the end will knock your socks off!
This is a great book. I have one on my keeper shelf.
From the back cover...
Dangerous liaisons...
Forced into a marriage of convenience with a dissolute older lord, beautiful, innocent Lady Genelle Tisne has little knowledge of true passion. Yet even as she yearns to escape her unfulfilling life, she soon finds herself caught in a scandal that rocks strait-laced London society: her husband is found murdered.
Irresistible desires...
As the prime suspect, Genelle is determined to find the real killer. She hires enigmatic private investigator Rulan Rook...and is swept into a secret world of forbidden temptations and sensual abandon, where every seduction has its pleasure-and its price.
Sercet pleasures...
But it is Roak who will take Genelle to the dizzying heights of love. For try as he might, he cannot resist the lady whose very life depends on him. Genelle Tisne could be the most dangerous woman he has ever known-yet she is the only one he will ever desire....
Dangerous liaisons...
Forced into a marriage of convenience with a dissolute older lord, beautiful, innocent Lady Genelle Tisne has little knowledge of true passion. Yet even as she yearns to escape her unfulfilling life, she soon finds herself caught in a scandal that rocks strait-laced London society: her husband is found murdered.
Irresistible desires...
As the prime suspect, Genelle is determined to find the real killer. She hires enigmatic private investigator Rulan Rook...and is swept into a secret world of forbidden temptations and sensual abandon, where every seduction has its pleasure-and its price.
Sercet pleasures...
But it is Roak who will take Genelle to the dizzying heights of love. For try as he might, he cannot resist the lady whose very life depends on him. Genelle Tisne could be the most dangerous woman he has ever known-yet she is the only one he will ever desire....
From the back cover...
Forced into a marriage of convenience with dissolute older lord, beautiful, innocent Lady Genelle Tisne has little knowledge of true passion. Yet even as she yearns to escape her unfulfilling life, she soon finds herself caught in a scandal that rocks strait-laced London society when her husband is found murdered...
As the prime suspect, Genelle is determined to find the real killer. She hires enigmatic private investigator Rulan Roak...and is swept into a secret world of forbidden temptations and sensual abandon, where every seduction has its pleasure-and its price.
Forced into a marriage of convenience with dissolute older lord, beautiful, innocent Lady Genelle Tisne has little knowledge of true passion. Yet even as she yearns to escape her unfulfilling life, she soon finds herself caught in a scandal that rocks strait-laced London society when her husband is found murdered...
As the prime suspect, Genelle is determined to find the real killer. She hires enigmatic private investigator Rulan Roak...and is swept into a secret world of forbidden temptations and sensual abandon, where every seduction has its pleasure-and its price.
Good erotic read.
Forced into a marriage of convenience with a dissolute older lord, beautiful, innocent Lady Genelle Tisne has little knowledge of true passion. Yet even as she years to escape her unfulfilling life, she soon finds herself caught in a scandal that rocks strait-laced London society when her husband is found murdered.
