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The Price of Pleasure
319 pages
A breathless, high-stakes dance of danger and desire where a scandalous reputation hides a desperate heart.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like stepping into the unapologetically dramatic and steamy world of vintage historical romance. The atmosphere is thick with shadows, secrets, and an immediate, crackling tension between a desperate captive and his mysterious savior. It moves at a brisk, breathless pace, sweeping the reader through a landscape of 17th-century French intrigue where nothing is quite as it seems. The prose is lush and emotionally charged, prioritizing sensory details and sweeping declarations over quiet subtlety. It is a deeply sensual experience, built on the thrilling friction of mistrust slowly melting into all-consuming passion. Fans of old-school, high-stakes romance who love a misunderstood heroine and a rugged, resilient hero will devour this intensely atmospheric escape.
- Mood
- sensual
- suspenseful
- shadowy
- steamy
- Tone
- melodramatic
- passionate
- earnest
- dramatic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- deceptive appearances · captive and captor · redemptive love · hidden innocence · survival and trust
- The writing
- Lush and dramatic, leaning heavily into the sensory extremes and breathless emotional declarations characteristic of vintage historical romance.
- The arc
- Moves from desperate suspicion and physical peril to a sweeping, all-consuming romantic devotion.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave the high-stakes, unapologetically steamy melodrama of classic 90s historical romance.
Content notes
- captivity
- past torture
- violence
- dubious consent themes
About the book
The Black Widow That was what she was called by the desperate prisoners incarcerated in Devil's Chateau. Young and beautiful, she was rumored to buy men for purposes both scandalous and secret. Whatever she did with them, one thing was certain: Her unfortunate victims were never seen again. But when she whisked Reed Harwood out of the cell where he'd been left to die for spying against the French, he discovered the lady was not all she seemed. Fleur Fontaine was the most exquisitely sensual woman he'd ever met, yet there was an innocence about her that belied her sordid reputation. Though he'd been tortured by his jailors, his body reacted eagerly to her nearness. Only a dead man would fail to respond to the sight of those ebony curls, the touch of those luscious lips. Reed was not dead yet, but was he willing to pay...The Price of Pleasure
Description from Open Library.
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