![]() Her latest Liz Taylor escapade sees her eloping with – no, not a gay husband with shifty eyes, but running off with the most unpleasant one of her suitors. Apparently she’s been on a serial engagement and de-engagement marathon just to make Temple realize that they’re meant together. ![]() ![]() Diana is determined to make Temple love her or else. ![]() Then we go to Chapter One, set ten years later. Diana’s engaged to Temple’s cousin, but… well, you’ll learn what happened to that engagement in the author’s previous book One Night of Passion. She also overhears enough to realize that Temple is not only some Clark Kent Van Damme fellow, he has also helped royalty-loving French emigrants flee France during the revolution. She catches the supposed dandy Temple – the Marquess of Templeton, actually – in the act of kicking some serious butt. In the prologue, our heroine Diana Fordham, then nineteen, tries to seek help when her French friend is attacked by brutes. The author’s sense of description when it comes to fast-paced scenes is as good as ever, but I wonder just how long more does Ms Boyle expect to get away with her books’ plots filled with illogical loopholes? I once predicted that she would give the likes of Marsha Canham the run for their money, but that was a long time ago, sometime around the time when Ms Boyle’s debut Brazen Angel knocks me down onto my bum with just how good it is. Elizabeth Boyle has a knack for writing swashbuckling and adventure-filled romances. ![]()
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