One Night of Sin

I can call it a bodice ripper because right there on page 343 it says "He tore her lovely bodice in his haste to get his hand on her..." Hehe... The plot has been detailed elsewhere so I'll just say what I liked about this book. First the sex was really steamy and explicit. More, I think, than the other books in the series. These two were so hot for each other, right from the beginning. They couldn't keep their hands off each other! But the part I really liked was Alec's sweet seduction of Becky. He was such a pro. Standing under an awning on a rainy street, he said all those sweet words to her, just the right things to make her melt. And then he fed her and bathed her and kissed away her sorrows. Alec is so charming! What a sweet hero he is. These two had great chemistry. Maybe I was just in the right mood for it today, but I really loved this book.

Gaelen Foley is an extremely gifted writer. Her series of the Knight family is one no one should miss. It is a series I will reread again.

and she does not disappoint with her newest installement in the Knight series. I couldn't wait for Alec's story, and boy was it worth it! Another reviewer has detailed the plot, so I will not do so again here. But for those of you who have followed this series, you will understand that Alec is one tortured soul. But Foley does a fantastic job of making the reader fall in love with him from the start of the book (many of us may already have been 1/2 there - Lizzie-style), and making us even more so as Alec becomes the true hero we knew he would. Don't miss Alec and Becky's beautiful love story! (and there is plenty of action too!)

Alec had been a secondary character in many of Gaelen Foley's previous Knight novels. He was always witty and charming with a devil may care attitude but he had one very bad problem-- compulsive gambling. I wondered how Foley would pull turning this loser into a great hero but she did. This book was witty, complex, well structured. I loved the heroine. Hated the villian. Laughed often and worried at all the right moments. And not to mention this book is also quite steamy. Bravo!

In 1817 London half Russian half English Earl Prince Kurkov sends four of his best Cossack soldiers to capture his cousin Rebecca Ward before she can reach her late grandfather's friend and political adversary the Duke of Westland. Becky watched Kurkov kill in cold blood, has learned about his anti-Tsar plot, and knows he plans to use and abuse her. After four days of little to eat and no rest, Becky reaches London with the Cossacks closing in on her. A storm sends her seeking shelter under the portico of Lord Draxinger's home where she falls asleep. Drax and three friends, Rush, Fort, and Alec Knight arrive for a night of cards when they see her and assumes she is a whore. Rush tries for a kiss but takes a knee in the family jewels; Drax follows but receives an elbow knocking out a tooth. Becky flees, but Alec pursues her. He persuades her to come to his home where they make love. The next morning she leaves and he realizes she was a virgin. He follows her and soon kills two Cossacks attacking her. As they struggle to stay alive and raise the alarm about the anti-Tsar plot, they fall in love. ONE NIGHT OF SIN is a tense romantic suspense thriller that brings to life an interesting historical footnote, England's adulation of Tsarist Russia following the Napoleonic Wars. The characters make for a fine story line with the lead couple's inability to compete with Kurkov's charm to sell himself to Westland (and his daughter). Fans will enjoy this fine Regency that would be folly not to read. Harriet Klausner