USA Today's Happy Ever After Blog on Lord of Darkness This can be read as a standalone, but I adore each book in this series and encourage you to start from the beginning. I adore the Maiden Lane series, and this fifth book is a very welcome addition to the series. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” Her realistic delivery of their shared secrets makes the romance that much more convincing.

McNab’s greatest success is her projection of the undercurrent of longing between Eve and Asa. Further, her reading gives the story’s eighteenth-century-London setting verisimilitude for contemporary listeners…it’s hard to imagine better historical romance. “Narrator Ashford McNab makes Eve and Asa’s unlikely pairing a foregone conclusion. There’s no denying the smoldering fire between them-and trying to put it out would be the greatest folly of all. But the harder she tries to manage the stubborn rake, the harder it is to ignore his seductive charm and raw magnetism. In spite of her lack of theatrical experience-and her fiery clashes with Asa-Eve is determined to turn Harte’s Folly into a smashing success. He’s not about to let an aristocratic woman boss him around … no matter how enticing she is. As the garden’s larger-than-life owner, he’s already dealing with self-centered sopranos and temperamental tenors.

But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London’s premier pleasure garden, Harte’s Folly, she finds herself butting heads with an infuriating scoundrel who can’t be controlled.īawdy and bold, Asa Makepeace doesn’t have time for a penny-pinching prude like Eve. Prim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother’s investment.

Sweetest scoundrel by elizabeth hoyt