After discovering her murdered mother's diary, Lady Maura Daventry cannot forgive herself for wrongly judging her. Maura believed, along with society, that her mother was an infamous harlot who cuckolded her husband. Wanting to find out the truth about her mother's death, Maura decides to use the clues in the diary and prove her mother and lover were murdered. Determine to find the evidence she needs, Maura arrives in disguise at a ball filled with debauched society members and stumbles upon the wicked Earl of Hawksley.
After his infamous father shot his lover and then committed suicide, Gabriel, the Earl of Hawksley, has long suffered comparisons between them. He stopped trying to convince society he's different and instead conforms to their beliefs. They've rewarded him with the title of Devil's Own. Seeing the daughter of his father's lover at an orgy, Gabriel is curious about her motives. Lady Maura Daventry is always proper and stays strictly within society's bounds, so why is she here?
Maura will not give Gabriel the answers he seeks. He lowers his guard and tries to help her, but Maura refuses to believe him. She mirrors her father's actions with her mother and believes the worst. Maura denies the attraction between them, knowing she must avoid love and passion at all cost. Gabriel knows he's fallen in love with Maura and redoubles his efforts to prove himself.
Ms. Logan keeps the suspense taut as she continues this series about the three Daventry sisters. SINS OF MIDNIGHT opened the possibilities of conspiracy and murder. Now, THE DEVIL'S TEMPTATION exposes one of the guilty parties behind the murders, while contending with the pain and guilt left behind for the surviving family members. Readers are rewarded with a poignant romance, a suspenseful mystery and the anticipation of discovering the mastermind in the next tale.
A debauched ball, packed with London's seediest revelers, is
no place for the decent young woman I've tried so hard to
be. But if I'm to avoid my mother's shameful scandal that
led to her still-unsolved murderβI, Lady Maura Daventry,
must be willing to hunt everywhere for the truth about her
killer. But I never expected I would encounter the devil
himself: the Earl of Hawksley, a wicked, charismatic
rakehell who has set ton tongues wagging by bedding women
all over London . . . and whose father was the prime suspect
in the murder of his married loverβmy mother.
But new evidence seems to suggest another culprit was
responsibleβand the only man offering to assist me in my
hunt is the dangerously seductive Hawksley, who, alas, grows
more intriguing to me by the hour.
I have heard the stories of his grand indiscretions. But I
never dreamed I would become one.
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