Ian Griffith, the paragon marquess we met in the Knight Miscellany Series is set out to meet his match...
The proper, honorful peer is sent to India to negociate a peace treaty between local kings, thus preventing a war. When he sets foot on Indian soil, one of the first people he meets is Georgiana Knight, cousin to his best friends. She is a woman on a mission and needs rescueing. The strict marquess sees it as his duty to protect the young woman from scandal, especially when he learns she wants to go with him on his mission. Ian can't have that, so he makes sure she is grounded... After all, with her brothers gone, she is in need of the guidance of a man... him.
But somehow he isn't suprised when she arrives a while after him and he starts to admire the headstrong beauty. But married once before, he has no intention to do so again. But in sensual India, even straightlaced Ian might wander from the proper path to grasp a passion he never once felt before...
In the previous series we met Ian Griffith as a friend of the Knights. Handsome, proud, honorbound... Everything to make him the perfect peer and diplomat... Even though I really liked him, I was a bit hesitant when I picked up his book... After all.. madly in love with his deceased wife, stiff... What fun would he be??
But I should have know better!! If Gaelen Foley can redeem Alec Knight, then she sure can turn rather boring Ian into a hero that stole my breath away.
Georgie is a headstrong, loyal to the bone, independent woman. Raised in India, she fights off marriage and the consequences it brings to woman. She is furious when Ian fooled her, but soon she starts to see the good side of the man, even th deeper passion that smolders in his eyes. But everytime she comes closer to the man deep down, something happens that puts her at distance again...
Georgie is the niece of Georgiana Knight, also know as the Hawkcliff's Harlot. You can tell Foley wanted a mix for the two. On her site she tells she got many pleas to write the first Georgiana's story, but of course, Hawkecliff's harlot isn't really heroine material in a romance novel... So we get Georgie... Fiercy, loyal, smart, fighting for women in need... Only no lovers and children from other men Laughing
Gaelen Foley is one of my favorite writers... She makes me smile, she makes me smile, she makes my heart break...
Her only desire is a book that grabs your attention and just keeps pulling you deeper and deeper... Georgie is a hit from moment one... She never crosses the border or being stupid in her independance, even though her actions don't always have the result she envisioned... When the story unfolds she loses the impulsive side, but never the passion, the need to do right. Ian grows on you page after page... And when he sheds the peer armor and shows the man inside, I fell for him straight away. He changes from a proper and quiet diplomat to a man who wants to live again.
The changes in both of them are so well written, that Her Only Desire is once again a book to have on your shelves, no, in your hands !
I would have loved to have more interaction between the other Knights, but we can't have all...
This book is a pageturner where the writer is able to bring India in your living room. The protagonists are wonderful and I just adore little Matthew... Not the ideal child, but a real boy that isn't always happy he don't get what he wants...
I just loved it
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