One Night of Temptation by Darcy Burke
by Darcy Burke
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Faced with a marriage she can’t abide, Lady Penelope Wakefield takes drastic measures to preserve her freedom. Her brilliant plan is foolproof until a sexy but imperious rector “rescues” her.
Rector Hugh Tarleton has no patience for the Society philanthropists who seek to bestow their pity—and not much else—on his oppressed flock in one of London’s worst neighborhoods. When the daughter of a marquess is kidnapped and brought to the rookery, he vows to protect her, but the temptation to surrender to their mutual desire will certainly ruin them both.
Meet the unforgettable men of London’s most notorious tavern, The Wicked Duke. Seductively handsome, with charm and wit to spare, one night with these rakes and rogues will never be enough…
- File Name:one-night-of-temptation-by-darcy-burke.epub
- Original Title:One Night of Temptation
- Creator:Burke, Darcy
- Language:en
- Identifier:3733987006
- Publisher:Darcy Burke Publishing
- Date:2019-06-25
- File Size:659.630 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Dedication
- 3. Contents
- 4. One Night of Temptation
- 5. Copyright
- 6. Chapter 1
- 7. Chapter 2
- 8. Chapter 3
- 9. Chapter 4
- 10. Chapter 5
- 11. Chapter 6
- 12. Chapter 7
- 13. Chapter 8
- 14. Chapter 9
- 15. Chapter 10
- 16. Chapter 11
- 17. Chapter 12
- 18. Chapter 13
- 19. Chapter 14
- 20. Epilogue
- 21. Also by Darcy Burke
- 22. The Jewels of Historical Romance
- 23. About the Author
Darcy Burke
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One Night of Temptation, Book 6 of the Wicked Dukes Club series, was about Lady Penelope Wakefield, daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Bramber (two people she feared), and Mr. Hugh Tarleton, the Rector of the Church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. Penelope, having failed to receive even one offer of marriage as the Season was drawing to a close, was being forced into a marriage with the Earl of Findon, the father of her late fiancee, by her father. In order to avoid such a fate, Penelope hatched a plan to escape the clutches of her chaperone Mrs. Hall, her mother's cousin who took great pleasure in maligning her and seeing to it that she was totally inspected at every turn and then to disappear. Instead of meeting up with the friend who had helped arrange her escape, Penelope was accosted by two men who threw a bag over her head and tried to kidnap her. As he was walking back to his parish, Hugh noticed two men he knew struggling with a woman who looked out of place in St. Giles. As he approached them, the men told him to mind his own business. Rather than doing what he was told, he pulled the bag off her head and realized who she was. When he managed to get her free of the men, he tried to take her back home, only for her to tell him she couldn't go back. Realizing her plight, Hugh took Penelope to the best inn that St. Giles offered...which wasn't saying much...and got her to tell him what the plan had been and why it had been made. After seeing her safely through the night, Hugh escorted her back home the next morning. Unfortunately, things did not go as Penelope had hoped. Her disappearance had not changed anything. While the chemistry and attraction between Hugh and Pen were quite apparent, and both acknowledged it to the other, they both knew they could not act on it. This story had a lot of angst, drama, and melodrama...some of which were way out of proportion. There was little to no humor, but there was definitely enough anger towards Penelope's family to make one want to do a person some bodily harm. While it was a good story, it definitely lacked continuity, reasoning, and construction for it to be worth a 5-star rating. The female character was, in many ways, lacking in intelligence for her to fall for the scheme she did. At her age, she should have been able to come up with a better idea for getting herself out of such a marriage that her family was forcing upon her. Hugh's character lacked a bit of a backbone. While, yes, he was a rector, a man who should hold with a better moral compass than most men, he not only allowed Penelope to sway his resolve, but when he wanted something, he didn't seem to have the strength of will to go for it. He also allowed others to run roughshod over him too. It was a bit of a mess towards the end, definitely not living up to the era the book portrayed but, since it was a romance novella, it definitely leaned towards romance. It was an unusual ending for an unusual series. Unfortunately, none of the six books earned a 5-star rating or made it into the Keeper for the Shelves collection.