Seeking revenge, she discovers how delicious a case of mistaken identity can be...Merriam Everett has always been regarded as a shy, docile creature. But for one night, Merriam the Mouse has become a temptress who will recklessly take her pleasure with the arrogant earl who once slighted her, and then leave him aching with lust. A fine plan, if Merriam had not just seduced the wrong rogue! Drake Sotherton left England amid dark speculation and has returned to seek vengeance against Julian Clay, the man he believes murdered his wife. Convinced that the masked beauty who seduced him is Julian's pawn, Drake tracks her down and proposes that she become his mistress for the Season. Every sensual desire, every secret longing will be explored...and fulfilled. But keeping his enemy close is a dangerous game. Merriam is an irresistible mix of innocence and abandon, and each encounter proves more soul-searing than the last. With a passion this wild, this wonderful, one Season will never be enough...
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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I enjoyed this book, which is about a man's obsession with revenge and woman's desire to be daring for once in her life.
Mrs Merriam Everett is a quiet, shy, plain, unassuming widow. However, the day she hears Julian Clay describe her as a "whey-faced widow", she is determined to have her revenge. She seeks out a brothel madam in order to take advice on how to seduce a rake and takes her chance at a Society masquarade ball. Dying her hair, dressing provocately and hiding her identity behind her mask. She determines to seduce Juian Clay and leave him unfulfilled with a few pithy words. Merriam looks for a man dressed as Merlin, as she understands that that will be Julian's costume. She finds him easily enough and seduces him with ease. However, she has not allowed for her own bodily desires and things go much further than she ever intended i.e. they end up seducing each other. When Merlin asks to see her again, much to his annoyance and bewilderment she refuses and leaves him with a pithy comment about insulting whey-faced widows.
Drake Sotherton is very surprised when the passionate seductress leaves him so suddenly and is determined to find out who she is. Drake has only very recently returned from the West Indies after eight years abroad. Before he left England his wife, Lily, was murdered. Drake has an alibi as he was miles away in Scotland at the time. However, his friend Juilan Clay points the finger at him, accuses him of murder and turns the ton against Drake. Drake leaves the country to seek peace, only afterwards realising that leaving made him look guilty. He and Julian, although once friends, have always been rivals and Julian has always had to have what Drake has. Drake realises that Julian and Lily were having an affair and he is sure that Julian killed her and then spoke up against Drake to turn suspicion away from himself. Now back in England he is determined to ruin his former friend as revenge.
Drake learns that someone else was to wear a Merlin costume at the ball and that was Julian Clay. He manages to narrow down the likely young widows who were at the ball and eventually realises that his seductress was the brownhaired, shy and badly dressed Mrs Everett.
Merriam is mortified that she seduced the wrong man, but cannot resist Drake and agrees to be his mistress for the season. However, he also thinks that she is in league somehow with Julian Clay, as it was Julian that she obviously intended to seduce. he determines to use her in his game of revenge to dangle before Julian. Drake's best friend, Alex, adds to the confusion with the best intentions in the world. It all leads to a final bloody showdown between the two protagonists.
In agreeing to quite openly become Drake's mistress, Merriam seems to neglect the fact that she will be ostracised by Society, will never be able to return to her old respectable life and may well end up pregnant. Still, it's only a story isn't it!
One little point that the author should take note of. In Britain we don't refer to houses as "brownstones", that's an Americanism!
Mrs Merriam Everett is a quiet, shy, plain, unassuming widow. However, the day she hears Julian Clay describe her as a "whey-faced widow", she is determined to have her revenge. She seeks out a brothel madam in order to take advice on how to seduce a rake and takes her chance at a Society masquarade ball. Dying her hair, dressing provocately and hiding her identity behind her mask. She determines to seduce Juian Clay and leave him unfulfilled with a few pithy words. Merriam looks for a man dressed as Merlin, as she understands that that will be Julian's costume. She finds him easily enough and seduces him with ease. However, she has not allowed for her own bodily desires and things go much further than she ever intended i.e. they end up seducing each other. When Merlin asks to see her again, much to his annoyance and bewilderment she refuses and leaves him with a pithy comment about insulting whey-faced widows.
Drake Sotherton is very surprised when the passionate seductress leaves him so suddenly and is determined to find out who she is. Drake has only very recently returned from the West Indies after eight years abroad. Before he left England his wife, Lily, was murdered. Drake has an alibi as he was miles away in Scotland at the time. However, his friend Juilan Clay points the finger at him, accuses him of murder and turns the ton against Drake. Drake leaves the country to seek peace, only afterwards realising that leaving made him look guilty. He and Julian, although once friends, have always been rivals and Julian has always had to have what Drake has. Drake realises that Julian and Lily were having an affair and he is sure that Julian killed her and then spoke up against Drake to turn suspicion away from himself. Now back in England he is determined to ruin his former friend as revenge.
Drake learns that someone else was to wear a Merlin costume at the ball and that was Julian Clay. He manages to narrow down the likely young widows who were at the ball and eventually realises that his seductress was the brownhaired, shy and badly dressed Mrs Everett.
Merriam is mortified that she seduced the wrong man, but cannot resist Drake and agrees to be his mistress for the season. However, he also thinks that she is in league somehow with Julian Clay, as it was Julian that she obviously intended to seduce. he determines to use her in his game of revenge to dangle before Julian. Drake's best friend, Alex, adds to the confusion with the best intentions in the world. It all leads to a final bloody showdown between the two protagonists.
In agreeing to quite openly become Drake's mistress, Merriam seems to neglect the fact that she will be ostracised by Society, will never be able to return to her old respectable life and may well end up pregnant. Still, it's only a story isn't it!
One little point that the author should take note of. In Britain we don't refer to houses as "brownstones", that's an Americanism!
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Oh My! ***This book should come with a warning label!***
27 Nov 2006
By Misuzmama
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A warning that perhaps you shouldn't read this in public if your prone to blush, giggle or break out into a sweat by reading explicit and *inventive* love scenes.
Drake, the Duke of Sussex is out for revenge for the death of his adulterous wife and Merriam, the shy plain faced widow is caught in the middle of the his scheme unwittingly. She mistakenly seduces him at a masked ball in which she determined to bring another rake to his knees (literally) and leave him hanging with her new found sexual confidence. So it is the Duke she seduces and later is unable to resist the tension between them and becomes his mistress. But what will happen when the Duke discovers that he has lost heart to the one women he was wrong about and betrayed?
This is ONE HOT BOOK! I'm pretty jaded when it comes to love scenes. Most historical romances contain the same 'scenes' at nauseum, but not here! I've never read a book with SO MANY love scenes and they were well written too. Unfortunately, I feel that the 'romance' part suffered a bit because of this. You really don't feel the emotional side of the characters, rather its more of a primative or lusting-type love. There is essentially no buildup since the encounters are so frequent and start VERY early in the book. Its a different approach to writing (although not neccessarily worse), but it lead me to care less for the characters than if the tension was strung-out a bit.
I know this is Bernards first work and I have to commend her on her bold statement, but I have to mention a few irritating points. I agree with another reviewer, the description of time period (regency? victorian?) is sorely lacking. Sometimes the writing was jumpy (a fault of the editors) and I found scenes abruptly ending and new ones begining practically within the same paragraph. And the repetition of 'Oh my! and 'Your incorrigible' was annoying.
That being said, I really did enjoy the book and I have hopes that Bernard will improve in her next novel (how can anyone resist a book about a Madames Deception?)
So if you like lots of explicit love scenes (Kleypas and Jeffries watch out!) with two likeable characters and don't mind the lack of emotional build-up and the decidedly weak revenge plot, this ones for you.
Drake, the Duke of Sussex is out for revenge for the death of his adulterous wife and Merriam, the shy plain faced widow is caught in the middle of the his scheme unwittingly. She mistakenly seduces him at a masked ball in which she determined to bring another rake to his knees (literally) and leave him hanging with her new found sexual confidence. So it is the Duke she seduces and later is unable to resist the tension between them and becomes his mistress. But what will happen when the Duke discovers that he has lost heart to the one women he was wrong about and betrayed?
This is ONE HOT BOOK! I'm pretty jaded when it comes to love scenes. Most historical romances contain the same 'scenes' at nauseum, but not here! I've never read a book with SO MANY love scenes and they were well written too. Unfortunately, I feel that the 'romance' part suffered a bit because of this. You really don't feel the emotional side of the characters, rather its more of a primative or lusting-type love. There is essentially no buildup since the encounters are so frequent and start VERY early in the book. Its a different approach to writing (although not neccessarily worse), but it lead me to care less for the characters than if the tension was strung-out a bit.
I know this is Bernards first work and I have to commend her on her bold statement, but I have to mention a few irritating points. I agree with another reviewer, the description of time period (regency? victorian?) is sorely lacking. Sometimes the writing was jumpy (a fault of the editors) and I found scenes abruptly ending and new ones begining practically within the same paragraph. And the repetition of 'Oh my! and 'Your incorrigible' was annoying.
That being said, I really did enjoy the book and I have hopes that Bernard will improve in her next novel (how can anyone resist a book about a Madames Deception?)
So if you like lots of explicit love scenes (Kleypas and Jeffries watch out!) with two likeable characters and don't mind the lack of emotional build-up and the decidedly weak revenge plot, this ones for you.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Whoa! This is a hot one!
2 Nov 2006
By Viv
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A steamy debut novel and a new voice in erotic romance, 'A Lady's Pleasure` is a breathtaking story of mistaken identity.
The hero of this tale, Drake, is back in Town from a self-inflicted exile to seek revenge on his wife's supposed murderer and lover, Lord Westleigh. Once best friends, each is out to ruin the other.
Merriam, the once meek little mouse is also set on revenge against Lord Westleigh for calling her a "whey-faced widow". Her plan: get him hot and bothered then leave him wanting more. Things don't go as planned when Drake is the one she inadvertantly seduces instead.
What follows is some explicit and creative love scenes that will leave you breathless. Merriam and Drake were insatiable, but because the scenes were so well written and different I didn't skim a single one.
There is also hero-jealousy as Drake intends to use Merriam as 'bait` to lure Julian, Lord Westleigh into his web.
**The mystery gets tied up rather quickly in the last two chapters but the rest of the book was so good it is hard to mark off for that.
The hero of this tale, Drake, is back in Town from a self-inflicted exile to seek revenge on his wife's supposed murderer and lover, Lord Westleigh. Once best friends, each is out to ruin the other.
Merriam, the once meek little mouse is also set on revenge against Lord Westleigh for calling her a "whey-faced widow". Her plan: get him hot and bothered then leave him wanting more. Things don't go as planned when Drake is the one she inadvertantly seduces instead.
What follows is some explicit and creative love scenes that will leave you breathless. Merriam and Drake were insatiable, but because the scenes were so well written and different I didn't skim a single one.
There is also hero-jealousy as Drake intends to use Merriam as 'bait` to lure Julian, Lord Westleigh into his web.
**The mystery gets tied up rather quickly in the last two chapters but the rest of the book was so good it is hard to mark off for that.
21 of 25 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sometimes, it's the little stuff that counts
19 Nov 2006
By Thea
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
First the positives--the writing flowed well, the characters fleshed out nicely, and the sex scenes leaped off the page. HOWEVER, the author has no business writing historical fiction with NO (I mean none, zilch, zip) knowledge of the era in which she sets her book. Well, actually, my first quibble is I'm not exactly sure when this novel is supposed to be set, because the author gives the reader no overt context. Let's just say it's "ye merry ol' England."
I do not profess to be an expert of "ye merry ol' England," but after years of reading romance I do know one thing--an earl would never be introduced as a plain mister (see page 49). Although this is not the first naming error, it's the most egregious. Normally, I'm not a stickler for this sort of thing. Actually, anachronisms fly right by me most of the time, but errors as blatent as those in this book kept pulling me out of the story.
Also, the story contained continuity problems. For example, the story starts off with the heroine not knowing the identity of the hero. Then, he gives her his card (which should have his name on it), but even after seeing the card she asks the hero who he is. BEFORE he tells her, she calls him "my grace." Huh? Do you know him or not?
For the most part, I'm going to chalk the problems in this book up to atrocious editting and recommend that Pocket retrain whoever allowed this book to go to print as is. My recommendation for the reader: wait to buy Bernard's next book and hope that the writing stays consistent and the editting improves.
I do not profess to be an expert of "ye merry ol' England," but after years of reading romance I do know one thing--an earl would never be introduced as a plain mister (see page 49). Although this is not the first naming error, it's the most egregious. Normally, I'm not a stickler for this sort of thing. Actually, anachronisms fly right by me most of the time, but errors as blatent as those in this book kept pulling me out of the story.
Also, the story contained continuity problems. For example, the story starts off with the heroine not knowing the identity of the hero. Then, he gives her his card (which should have his name on it), but even after seeing the card she asks the hero who he is. BEFORE he tells her, she calls him "my grace." Huh? Do you know him or not?
For the most part, I'm going to chalk the problems in this book up to atrocious editting and recommend that Pocket retrain whoever allowed this book to go to print as is. My recommendation for the reader: wait to buy Bernard's next book and hope that the writing stays consistent and the editting improves.
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