5/31/2023 0 Comments An earl like you the wagers of sin![]() Upon his father’s death, Hugh Deveraux, 7th Earl of Hastings, learns that the 6th earl’s profligate ways left their family destitute: estates given to gardens and follies rather than tenants, debts galore, two sisters dowry-less and a mother grieving the Deveraux women are ignorant of their new circumstances … and Hugh wants to keep it that way. I was coiled with tension from the get-go which I attribute to Linden’s premise. In Linden’s latest, An Earl Like You (second in the series The Wagers of Sin), this new-to-me author deftly creates a romance which sustains the coming betrayal from the first chapter to the final. ![]() The darker and more heinous the betrayal, the better executed the narrative tension, when it seems as if hero and heroine will never mend their rift. Readers familiar with MBRR will know I am interested in romance’s dark moment, which I define as a betrayal. ![]()
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