Osmond, Baron Lennox, known to his friends and lovers as Oz,
has luck on his side. He spends his time translating rare
manuscripts and drinking great amounts of alcohol. Not only
is he skilled at cards but very good at pleasuring many
married women disillusioned with their own marriages. Oz is
a bachelor and loves it. As he makes his way to the
Blackwood Hotel in London's Soho Square for a rendezvous
with one of his paramours whose husband is away in another
country, he ends up in the wrong hotel room, almost seducing
a stranger. The woman Oz meets in the darkened room is
Isolde Perceval, Countess of Wraxell who thinks Oz is an
actor she paid to act as if they were in the middle of
having sex. She wants to be caught by her barrister and some
of the employees of the hotel, which she has planned, so she
is ruined. This will stop her selfish and dastardly cousin
Frederick from marrying her so he can gain access to her funds.
Oz finds humor in the situation and decides that there is
something special about Isolde. Since they in bed already
and have been caught, why not spend the night together
enjoying the pleasure they can give one another? Isolde
finds Oz to be a bit odd, but then the whole situation is.
Why not enjoy herself before she goes back to her simple
life in the country? Both have a wonderful night together in
each other's arms. Oz isn't ready to let Isolde go and
offers a solution to her family problems. He recommends they
have a marriage of convenience and pretend to have fallen
madly in love with one another. After some time, they will
get a divorce. Isolde agrees because she finds Oz so
fascinating and amazing skillful in the bedroom.
This marriage of convenience is a very unexpected one for
both Oz and Isolde. Oz begins to care for Isolde in ways he
has never cared for another woman. Isolde can't help but
feel jealous over Oz's past lovers and wants his attention
exclusively on her and perhaps make their marriage a
reality. These two desire both to the point of madness but
there is still a question of trust and Oz's own growing
jealous over a past love of Isolde's who thinks she is open
to an affair with him now that she has married a well known
libertine.
SEXY AS HELL is a trademark Susan Johnson historical with
many lusty sex scenes and a rakish and disillusioned hero
who is afraid to love the one woman who can complete him in
every way. Isolde runs hot and cold and is not afraid of
voicing her opinion about Oz's past, his issues with alcohol
and his reasoning for things. Oz lives in the moment and for
pleasure. And if he doesn't get what he wants right away, he
uses coercion, which Isolde can't help but succumb to. These
two try and work on things but because of the past and
outside influences, their growing love is almost destroyed.
Susan Johnson has a very particular audience and if you are
fine with an alcoholic Oz cheating on Isolde with a
one-dimensionally written ex-lover, as well as insulting
Isolde because she denies him sex, then SEXY AS HELL may be
book for you. This is one book with many cliché villainous
type characters and a hero who uses sex as an excuse to
overpower the heroine. But again, if you have enjoyed Susan
Johnson's historicals in the past, then you will find the
same with SEXY AS HELL.
If his mistress is missing, then who's the woman in the
baron's bed?
When Baron Lennox's assignation
with his mistress goes awry, he finds himself in bed with
the wrong lady. The potential scandal leaves him with one
option: marry the innocent mystery woman. But Isolde
Perceval has no intention of marrying Lennox. In fact, she
orchestrated the compromising situation herself - for
reasons that are unpredictable, riotously romantic, and
sexy as hell.
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