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On a Wicked Dawn (Cynster Novels) [Mass Market Paperback]

Stephanie Laurens (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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Publication Date: 11 May 2002 | ISBN-10: 0060002050 | ISBN-13: 978-0060002053

"Marrying you will be entirely my pleasure."

Amelia Cynster hears these words from the handsome, enigmatic Lucien Ashford and is stunned. It's near dawn and she's risked scandal by lying in wait for him just outside his London house. But he agrees to her outrageous marriage proposal – just prior to passing out at her feet. Amelia's torn between astounded relief and indignant affront, then decides she doesn't care. She has always loved him – no other man will do – and, frankly, she's tired of waiting.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 421 pages
  • Publisher: Avon Books (11 May 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060002050
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060002053
  • Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 3.8 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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Love it - Cathy Kelly --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

New York Times-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens specializes in writing historical romances set in Regency England. Her first such novel was Captain Jack's Woman, published in 1977. Ms. Laurens is best known for her long-running, award-winning tales of the ducal Cynster dynasty: Devils' Bride; A Rake's Vow; Scandal's Bride; A Rogue's Proposal; A Secret Love; All About Love; All About Passion (the story of 'honorary Cynster’ Gyles Rawlings); the twin novels On a Wild Night & On a Wicked Dawn; The Perfect Lover; and The Promise in a Kiss: A Christmas Novel, about the founders of the Cynster dynasty. All these titles are available from PerfectBound e-books. She resides in a leafy bayside suburb of Melbourne, Australia with her husband and two daughters and their cats, Shakespeare and Marlowe.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars After a night of celebrating Lucien Asford is finally free 21 Dec 2007
By Eric Sanchez
Format:Paperback
His family has been in finacial straights for years and now a deal has come in and he is wealthy again. As he is coming home Amelia Cynster is waiting for him she tells him she knows that he needs money and she knows it's time to get married and if he marries her he'll get her trust and she'll have some freedom. After some thought Lucien realizes that Amelia is the kind of wife he wants for reasons he can't explain.
Four years of searching through the ton Amelia Knows for sure who she wants Luicien Asford. She's always known he was the one she wants to share her life with now she's found the perfect way to get him. She wants a marriage that has it all Love, and respect and she won't settle for less! A battle of the wills insues.

There relationship has it all plenty of s3xuality and the slow easy slide into love. With a bit of mystery and plenty of Cynsters it's great book to read and reread! I can't wait for Simons story Stephanie Laurens is at the top of her game! I would also like to recommend Tino Georgiou's masterpiece ... The Fates ... if you were one of the few who missed it!
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book Ms Laurens has written to date 17 May 2002
By A Customer
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Ms Laurens simply gets better and better. Her latest instalment of the Cynster clan will not disappoint her fans. The relationship between Luc and Amelia simmers with sexual tension all the way through the book and the way their relationship develops in and out of the bedroom is a joy to read. Amelia is headstrong, intelligent and no simpering female whilst Luc is a sexy, intelligent and complex male. The chemistry between the two is described brilliantly. This book is more about the relationship between two characters you really care about rather than the plot. I simply couldn't put the book down and stayed up all night just to finish it!! Fantastic!!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars 2 1/2 really, but not up to par of previous books 28 Jan 2008
By Snowy
Format:Paperback
2 1/2-3 really. 1st to the good:

It was a nice change to see the woman propose to her man in the beginning, that she knows (or in this case thinks) that it will only be because of her very large dowery. It was also nice to see Devil confess out loud his love for his Duchess Honoria (which he never has done in the years since Devil's Bride). The little Ashfords were cute and I glad at least one family member isn't being kept on the shelf until her 20s.

The things that Bugged:

Amelia, whilst thankfully less 21st C type wild than twin Amanda come of as something of a cypher in her own book, you almost get more of her personality in the previous book. She's perfect at everything, everyone adores her, she knows immediately how to run a large country estate, her mother in law adores her and her younger sisters in law immediately go to her over their own mother for everything. Now this would be all very well if the rest of the plot were more than 10 page sex scenes interspersed with 2 pages of dialogue planning the next sex.

The main angle is 2 people madly in love who for a not exactly convincing (IMO) can't tell each other for 400 pages because of the "power" each would gain over the other. They are convinced each married the other only for convience and money, which is fine except for the passionate sex 5 times a day.

Laurens regular mystery plot is weaker than usual, the plot itself never became interesting to me (petty theft from various aristocrats homes) and the villain was even more transparent then usual and is case closed in a couple of pages at the end. And the whole sub plot about it being for Edward (the previous villain) doesn't really get resolved too well.

The book is also too long by at least 100 pages and feels drawn out for the sake of it. I love a good sex scene as much as the next reader but tehy happen so often and are so techincal that they become boring and redundant, especially with a thin plot to begin with. I enjoy Laurens writing style but it does start to become *too* wordy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great read
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Published on 22 Oct 2010 by Ita Richards
1.0 out of 5 stars Yawn, yawn and yawn again!
I didn’t think the Cynster series could hit a lower nadir than Scandal’s Bride, but On A Wicked Dawn does it. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2003 by Dr W. Richards
1.0 out of 5 stars deja vu
i only bought my first few stephanie laurens novels last week and, having read them all, am beginning to wonder if i am reading the same books as the rest of the people who gave... Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2003
4.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing compared to the other Bar Cynster novels
It's essential to read 'On a Wild Night' (Amanda's story) before reading this one(her twin Amelia's story)as the hero Luc Ashford first appears there, and that's the best... Read more
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