After experienced the failed marriage of her parents and the following scandal, Roslyn Loring is determined to marry for love and love only. So after her sister gets engaged with Marcus, she feels her time has come. She has a nice friendship with Haviland and is determined to secure him, feeling he won't need much persuasion. However, she has learned that men fall in love with their mistresses, rather than their wives. So she turns to Fanny, a notorious Cyprian.
At a Cyprian ball, she gets the unwanted attention of Drew, The Duke of Arden and on of Marcus' best friends... After a sensual interaction she flees...
Only to have to face him again on her sisters wedding... He recognizes her as his little shepherdess and feels it his duty to find out why she would attend such an event. When he finds out why, and she proposes to him to help her gain Havilands attention, he refuses at first, only to rethink his decision.
He will help her to become a woman men want as their mistress. Unfortunately they both didn't count on the fact that the passion between them wouldn't be subdued but burn more fiercly each time they meet.
Only Roslyn wants love and the last thing Arden is willing to give is precisly that...
This is the second installment of the Courtship Wars trilogy (so far, probably more books will come out in this series)
Roslyn is determined to win a man by making him love her. Since men love mistresses, not wives, she needs to be taught how to be a seduction. She turns to Arden for lessons, lessons that turn out true seductions of their own. However, as long as there is no love from Arden's side, Roslyn will not bend... It will be love or nothing at all...
Arden doesn't believe in love. In passion, yes, but love is not meant for him. Roslyn, however, turns his world upside down. He's arrogant, handsome and confident. He won't be foolish enough to be lurred into marriage. Not even if this woman rises a passion that he never experienced before.
Book 2 is a very entertaining book. I would not recommend it to not-regency lovers, but those who like the period and Nicole Jordan won't be disappointed.
I still prefer the notorious series by this author, but the time reading this book isn't wasted.
The interactions between Roslyn and Arden are passionate and steamy. At some point however, Roslyn is dragged to a level of being boring and repetious. But she recovers and Arder is top all the way...
Like I said, the courtship war triloy is not the best by this authors hand, but if you're in for an easy and light read, this might be a book to grab.
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