The Saint Who Stole My Heart
Stefanie Sloane


ISBN-10:
0345531140
ISBN-13: 978-0345531148
Publisher: Random House
Line: Ballantine
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Pages: 304
Retail Price: 7.99




Genre: Historical
Heat Level: Sensual
Rating:

Desire, danger, intrigue, and steamy seduction unite a sexy spymaster and an intrepid bluestocking as Stefanie Sloane’s luscious new series continues.

Possessed of a brilliant mind and a love for puzzles, Dashiell Matthews, Viscount Carrington, is a crucial member of the elite Young Corinthians spy league. Assuming the façade of an addle-brained Adonis, he hunts for a notorious London murderer known as the Bishop. When fate causes him to cross paths with Miss Elena Barnes, Dash discovers an enigma that will prove delightfully intoxicating to unravel: a voluptuous beauty as intelligent as she is fearless.

Only the lure of a collection of rare books bequeathed to her family by Dash’s late father could tempt Elena from her cozy rural life to the crush and vanity of London. But if Elena finds his lordship to be the most impossibly beautiful man she’s ever seen, he also seems to be the stupidest. Which made her body’s shameless response to his masterful seduction all the more unfathomable. Yet when she discovers Dash’s mission to track the dangerous Bishop, she willingly risks everything—her trust, her heart, her very life—to join him.

Series: Regency Rogues (Book 4)

Review

The Saint Who Stole My Heart, a continuation of the Regency Rogues series, is a delightful historical romance.

Dashiell “Dash” Matthews, Viscount Carrington, has spent years trying not to think about the death of the woman who had been like a mother to him, Lady Afton. It’s a mystery that he wishes he could solve. He knows some information, but not enough to satisfy him. After the death of his father, he is surprised to learn that his father had given the books in their library to an old family friend and that the friends daughter, Miss Elena Barnes would be visiting to pack up the books.  He doesn’t expect the feelings that come out around Miss Barnes. She sees the real him, instead of the empty headed image he projects to the ton.

Elena wants to get her father’s books and get out of London. Her one season was a disaster and she doesn’t want a repeat. She is equally distressed to find that her host is dim and doesn’t care a thing for books….or does he.

Elena finds herself drawn to the man and unable to focus on the books that had previously been her only goal. After a mishap with her maid, Elena finds herself drawn into the intrigue that surrounds Dash and the incident from his past.

I loved the relationship that evolves between Dash and Elena. Their first impressions of each other aren’t good and they come to realize that they have to look deeper to find out who the other really is. There is much more to them than they see at first glance.

The investigation into the death of Lady Afton is very well done. It doesn’t overshadow the romance and while the mystery as a whole isn’t solved an important piece of the puzzle is put in place. I expect the investigation to take place through the next two books featuring Bourne and Stonecliffe. There was just enough of a “wrap-up” to Dash’s part of the investigation to leave me hungry for more, but not feeling as if there was no resolution to the story.

I loved the ending of this story. Elena and Dash find their happily ever after and Dash finally breaking away from what had happened in his past. I can’t wait to find out what happens in the next two books – The Scoundrel Takes a Bride and The Wicked Widow Meets Her Match.

Reviewed by Carrie


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