What Price Love?: A Cynster Novel

"What Price Love" is only one of seventeen of the Cynster Novels. I have so far read the first eight and working on the nineth. If this one holds true to form, they only get better and better. Stephanie Laurens has created a fantastic family in this series! One word of note: Read them in order...I sugest reading "The Promise of a Kiss" first since it is about Sebastian and Helena (Devil Cynster's parents). The story of Devil kicks off the others. Addictive!!! **Dianne Gibbens**

I have to admit is not like the first group of Cynster's novels (the bar Cynster) but I really enjoyed it.

What Price Love? is a thoroughly satisfying read filled with romance, mystery, and suspense. Pris and Dillon's relationship offers the reader riveting sensual scenes in the midst of their quest to unravel a horse substitution racket at several race tracks. The scheme is described as a spiders web and they are risking their lives in trying to bring the ring to its knees. The book is balanced and it kept me wanting more. Stephanie Laurens is an excellent writer. Disregard the comments of people who were fool enough to give this book 1 star. They were obviously asleep at the wheel. When I finished the book, I thought it was an A+. The writing pulled me into the story and kept my appetite wheted for more. I had to go back and savor several wonderful scenes. This is one of those rare books that will linger in my mind's eye until I decide to treat myself to a second read. If you love luxurious sensuality that's tasteful and characters that are courageous, stubborn, and beautiful, you will love this book. This is my second Cynster novel and I loved this one better than The Truth About Love. Laurens has made my list of authors I'll continue to read.

Romance authors who develop a family or series of characters often create a sense of community for their audience. Readers feel that they are a part of the clan vicariously through reading about the adventures. Stephanie Laurens has created that kind of feeling for readers with her Cynster family series and their friends. In WHAT PRICE LOVE? she brings back Dillon Caxton, whom readers met in A ROGUE'S PROPOSAL. Now meet 24-year-old Priscilla Dalling, a young Irish woman whose good looks and green eyes disguise an intelligent and daring personality. Her twin brother, Lord Russell Dalling, is "horse-mad." All of his life, he has wanted to work with horses and to train an Irish Derby winner. Their father, the Earl of Kentwood, disapproves heartily. Despite the Earl's objections, Russ leaves home and goes to work for Lord Cromarty as a horse trainer. Soon after, Pris receives a letter from Russ telling her that he believes the head stableman could be involved in a horse breeding racket. He says he will go to Newmarket to learn more about the bloodline registry at the Jockey Club. Concerned for her brother, Pris follows with her paternal aunt and her aunt's goddaughter to find him. Enter the irresistibly handsome and charismatic Dillon Caxton. As a wild and reckless youth with a quest for excitement and thrills, Dillon was blackmailed into a nefarious scheme dealing with horse race fixing. His dear cousin Flick, married to a member of the Cynster family, comes to his aid and promptly finds herself in serious trouble. When Dillon steps in to save her, he ends up getting shot. Considering the wound reasonable payment for putting someone so close to him in harm's way, Dillon sets out to restore his reputation. He is now Keeper of the Register, which holds the bloodlines of all the racing horses in England. Pris arrives in Newmarket in search of her brother. As twins, she and Russ know how the other thinks. Pris is convinced that if she can figure out what is in the registry, it will explain why her brother is looking for it. So off she goes to the Jockey club, where she encounters Dillon. Pris has always known that her looks and voice mesmerize most men, knowledge she intends to use to her advantage. Her charms only work on Dillon to a small degree, as he has his own handsome looks with which he expects to captivate Pris. Is this the beginning of a match of wits, looks, charm and intelligence? Is this couple made for one another? Will they be able to recognize the best of each other when others only see them at face value? The reader is ready to find out how this couple will get together and stay together, anticipating that "happy ending." When Pris tries to gain information from Dillon, he questions her motives. As they both make use of their powerful attraction to each other, Dillon reveals his unhappy past. His confidence encourages Pris to tell her own story and Dillon decides to help. Together they locate Russ, only to discover that the perpe

As usual, Stephanie Laurens will not disappoint in this sensual and suspenseful romance. Once again, we not only revisit the Cynster Family, but particularly Demon & Flick. Another racing scandal builds as a set of twins Lord Russell & Lady Priscilla Dalloway of Ireland work to uncover a scandal to set races and replace thoroughbreds. Who holds the register of horses & racing? - Dillon Caxton, Flick's cousin, once the center of scandal himself years ago. He has worked hard to redeem himself and would do anything to avoid involvement in yet another scandal, but upon looking in the Emerald eyes of the beautiful Pris, he is lost. Dillon and the Cynsters form their plan and work together to uncover the dasterdly characters involved. The sensual scale is an 8 as the seduction builds to powerful love scenes that Ms. Laurens is noted for. Her fans won't be disappointed. Once again, the dashingly handsome Cynster connected male pursues his mate in ways that keeps your heart a thumpin'. Makes you want to beg Stephanie Laurens to please continue the Cynsters. After all, 13 is such an odd number. A Bastion Club is next, and of course we can't wait!