![]() ![]() He’s a consummate actor and crafty plotter, so I was more impressed by his evil skills than scandalized. One part fascinating, two parts horrible - not out of any moral sensibilities outraged by the hero's blatantly devious machinations. A right sneaky bastard, no? The first half of the book - the wooing part - was kind of like watching a train wreck for me. He takes advantage of her and encourages her love, all the while keeping his own heart inviolate. Cyres, impoverished and debt-ridden, pursues Prudence Bosworth, a former working girl turned million dollar heiress. ![]() ![]() In effect, Rhys de Winter, the Duke of St. The Wicked Ways of a Duke returns to familiar territory for Guhrke - at least for a long while it seemed a lot like The Marriage Bed to me - only here we get to see the whole sad story of betrayed love and lost innocence enacted before our very eyes, rather than having it considered in retrospect as the characters recover from the lies ten years down the road in an attempt at reconciliation. ![]()
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