All About Seduction
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- ¥880
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- ¥880
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“Madison is definitely an author to watch.”
—Romance Reviews Today
One of the most exciting new talents in historical romance fiction, Katy Madison returns with All About Seduction—a magnificent second novel as glorious as her first, Tainted by Temptation (“A firecracker of a book!” —Anna Campbell). A bewitching gothic novel set in Victorian England—ideal for fans of Amanda Quick and Elizabeth Hoyt—All About Seduction captivates from the very first page with a dark and sensuous tale of a woman who has lived her life bound by duty finally letting her passions free when she is ordered by her husband to take a lover.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Madison's tissue-thin historical throws plausibility to the wind. Well-born Caroline Broadhurst was forced to marry a brutal but affluent mill owner in return for lavish payments to her family. After 15 dutiful years of childless marriage, her husband learns that he's sterile. He's so determined to have a child that he commands Caroline to seduce one of her brother's aristocratic friends or be disinherited. Caroline is more attracted to an ambitious mill worker, Jack Applegate, than to the loutish guests, and when Jack is injured at the mill, she brings him into her home, nurses him back to health, and sneaks into his bed. Unsurprisingly, a young and virile mill worker is better able to introduce her to passion than a sadistic elderly husband. Caroline is more pitiable than sympathetic, and the stilted language and gaping plot holes keep the reader at a distance.
