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 murder—I, 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 lover—my mother.
But new evidence seems to suggest another culprit was
responsible—and 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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