Title:The Devil's Daughter
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Publisher: Avon
Publication Date: February 19, 2019
Source: ARC from publisher
ABOUT DEVIL’S DAUGHTER
Although beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he’s a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband’s life a misery, and she’ll never forgive him for it. But when Phoebe attends a family wedding, she encounters a dashing and impossibly charming stranger who sends a fire-and-ice jolt of attraction through her. And then he introduces himself...as none other than West Ravenel.
West is a man with a tarnished past. No apologies, no excuses. However, from the moment he meets Phoebe, West is consumed by irresistible desire...not to mention the bitter awareness that a woman like her is far out of his reach. What West doesn’t bargain on is that Phoebe is no straitlaced aristocratic lady. She’s the daughter of a strong-willed wallflower who long ago eloped with Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent—the most devilishly wicked rake in England.
Before long, Phoebe sets out to seduce the man who has awakened her fiery nature and shown her unimaginable pleasure. Will their overwhelming passion be enough to overcome the obstacles of the past? Only the devil’s daughter knows.
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New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas graduated from Wellesley College with a political science degree. She’s a RITA award-winning author of both historical romance and contemporary women’s fiction. She lives in Washington State with her husband Gregory and their two children.
Devil's Daughter continues the tradition of great historical romance from Lisa Kleypas. Just like the Wildflowers series before this, I have been enjoying The Ravenels. I can always expect a strong female lead and an irresistible alpha male who gets his life turned upside-down.
Devil's Daughter features Sebastian and Evangeline's daughter, Phoebe, Lady Clare, who is now a widow with two young sons to raise. After a brief but meaningful meet-cute, Phoebe finally realizes that this man with the smoldering looks is actually West Ravenel, her deceased husband's tormentor from boarding school. It's so strange to meet a man who not only makes her blood heat, but also makes her skin crawl.
Phoebe and West are often thrown together as they await the wedding of Phoebe's brother to West's cousin. She discovers that the more she's around him, the less he seems like the evil bully she had believed him to be. West is very gracious and quite capably in charge of the estate that his brother has recently taken over. Phoebe is constantly in awe of how great West is with her two children. Surely someone who is so patient and kind to these young boys couldn't be as bad as her husband had said.
West knows that he made many mistakes as a young boy. To combat the pain of his childhood, he turned to causing pain to others, including young Lord Clare. When he discovers that Phoebe knows of his treatment of her husband while at boarding school, West doesn't hold her actions against her. In fact, he expects her to blow him off. Instead, she sets out to seduce him.
Overall, this was everything I've come to expect from Lisa Kleypas. It was heart-warming and sexy, full of remorse and yet hopeful. The only this I didn't quite get was how West's treatment of Lord Clare was SUCH a big deal to Phoebe at first but then she just not only gets over it but decides to just jump into bed with him. It seemed a little incongruous to the rest of what was going on. I was completely in love with West and the way he interacted with Phoebe's boys. Their relationship was so natural and just the highlight of the book for me.
4 out of 5 stars.
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