While their initial encounter was fireworks galore, it takes a bit of time for the sparks to reignite later, but when they do, boy do they ever!

Likewise, Pru is emblematic of Byrne’s heroines: steadfast in her beliefs and not afraid to stand up for herself. Of course, over the course of the series, we’ve learned that the definition of justice is quite broad. I can’t say anything else without venturing into spoiler territory, but needless to say, this was an awesome way to end the Victorian Rebels series.Ĭarlton is like all of Byrne’s other heroes: ruthless in his pursuit of justice. They both think that this is the only time they’ll ever see each other, but they were wrong, of course. Guess who she meets there? Carlton! He’s skulking around on a case, and she mistakes him for one of the workers, and he doesn’t correct her.

So Pru goes to an exclusive brothel for one night of passion because she knows it’s her only chance in what will be a loveless marriage. Her father refuses to allow her to break the engagement, and insists that it’s perfectly normal for the aristocracy. Pru doesn’t want to marry her fiancé after she finds out that he sleeps around and has multiple illegitimate children. By night, he roams the streets of London, dishing out vigilante justice-kind of like Batman. Now it’s finally time for him to tell his own story and receive a HEA.īy day, Carlton is a respected police detective. Where he belonged.Sir Carlton Morley has been a fixture in the Victorian Rebels series, most often as the antagonist. Her knees parted, and he moved between them. Tongues glided together in a wet exploration of a mounting inferno charged with a powerful, intangible element. He made no decisions, had no plan of seduction or advancement, but suddenly he’d circled her waist with his hands and lifted her onto the closest workbench without breaking the fusion of their mouths. Because someday they’d all be nothing but dust and shadows, but his dust would have mingled with divinity for a moment.Īnd that made him something more than any other man alive. He’d never been a religious man, but he’d found a new goddess to worship. To taste her was to sample ambrosia.Īnd to have her hands roaming his bare skin? To kiss her was to glimpse what heaven might be like. She cared too much and trusted too easily. Gabriel had no frame of reference, but he knew, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that no sustenance, be it God or manmade, rivaled Felicity Goode in taste or texture. The Duke With the Dragon Tattoo, September 2018Įxcerpt of Tempting Fate by Kerrigan Byrne How To Love A Duke in Ten Days, September 2019 The Earl of Christmas Past, December 2020

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