She needs a champion willing to ruin her. He doesn’t need anyone. Scandal turns into seduction when a not-quite-perfect heiress tangles with a lost son of society.
An heiress with an imperfection.
Spawn of the devil.
Willow has suffered the gossip her entire life. She has the requisite
pot of gold, but not the perfection that is necessary for an admirable ton
match. Which is fine—she resigned herself to spinsterhood long ago. But
when a vicious threat rears against her family, she hatches a desperate
plan. She needs to find a man to champion her—and then jilt her—no
matter what she has to pay him. Her sister’s life depends upon it.
An unknowable rogue.
Being
a guardian—a protector of innocents—is in Jack Thatcher’s blood. He’s
the best in the business, even if he’s trying to leave the life behind.
He’s making his fortune, has a life of his own choosing where he doesn’t
need anyone, and no one really knows him. Paradise.
Jack is done
with the business of being a guardian—until the day Miss Willow
Constantine corners him in an alleyway, begging for his help. He decides
to help her, if only to pay off an old debt. Woo and wreck her? That he
can do. It isn’t as though they could possibly ever be together.
Two souls that will find perfection is what you make of it.
It
isn’t long before Jack discovers Willow is hiding a barrage of secrets,
some that threaten her life, and his protective instinct takes over. In
order to save her, he’ll have to get close to her. Too close. Which may
just turn the impossible into possible.
4 STARS
Really interesting main characters, written with good depth and a surprising first meeting ! It didn't take long for me to be pulled into the story by Willow and Jack. Each one had lived quite the life and developed their own ways of coping. It made me smile when Jack called Willow, "Sunbird".
The villain, Lord Fugal and his cousins aren't just bad they are disgustingly vile ! And the conversations that he has with Willow are some of the vilest. Oh, the nasty plans he has for her and his arrogance of thinking he's unstoppable.
Secrets. The story abounds with secret after secret. And not all of them belong to just Willow.
The tension is high and continues as you wonder if or how Willow and Jack will have a future. What would that look like? Things head to a dangerous turn before the ending.
“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”
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