Beauty Tempts the Beast by Lorraine Heath
Lorraine Heath ends her bestselling Sins for All Seasons series with the hero readers have been waiting for!\n\nShe wants lessons in seduction\n\nAlthea Stanwick was a perfect lady destined to marry a wealthy lord, until betrayal left her family penniless. Though she's lost friends, fortune, and respectability, Althea has gained a scandalous plan. If she can learn to seduce, she can obtain power over men and return to Society on her terms. She even has the perfect teacher in mind, a man whose sense of honor and dark good looks belie his nickname: Beast.\n\nBut desire like this can't be taught\n\nBenedict Trewlove may not know his parentage but he knows where he belongs-on the dark side of London, offering protection wherever it's needed. Yet no woman has ever made such an outrageous request as this mysterious beauty. Althea is out of place amongst vice and sin, even if she offers a wicked temptation he can't resist. But as the truth of his origin emerges at last, it will take a fierce, wild love to overcome their pasts.\n\nEditorial Reviews\n\n*10/19/2020\n\nHeath concludes her Sin for All Seasons series (after The Earl Takes a Fancy) with a true treat of a Victorian romance. Lady Althea Stanwick and her two older brothers are in dire straits after their land and titles are revoked in punishment for a treasonous act committed by their father. To make ends meet, Althea finds work as a barmaid at the Mermaid and the Unicorn in Whitechapel, an inn owned by the new Duchess Thornley, neÈ Trewlove, the heroine of When a Duke Loves a Woman. There Althea meets Benjamin "Beast" Trewlove, the duchess's brother, who instantly recognizes Althea as a highborn lady. Beast has made it his mission to protect London's prostitutes and help them to transition out of sex work, and he offers Althea a position teaching the women under his protection more refined skills in exchange for housing and a hefty sum. Althea agrees, gaining financial independence and the ability to support her brothers as they search for the truth behind their father's betrayal. And when Althea asks Beast for lessons in seduction, their already simmering chemistry comes to a boil. Heath may have saved the best for last. (Oct.)\n- Publishers Weekly\n\n2020-07-14\nThe last unmatched Trewlove finally finds his true love.\n\nBenedict Trewlove, known as Beast, didn't intend to become the owner of a brothel, but now he refuses to leave it until all the women under his care have found other employment. When he meets Althea Stanwick, his immediate thought is that she doesn't belong here in Whitechapel serving drinks in a tavern; she's too posh and refined. Three months ago, Althea was cast out from society when it was uncovered that her father, a duke, was a traitor to the crown. When Beast proposes Althea become a tutor to the ladies at his brothel, she agrees under the condition that he in turn teaches her to be a seductress. Becoming a courtesan will allow her to return to society on her own terms and give her protection and some freedom. Although the attraction between Beast and Althea is instantaneous, it's when friendship blossoms that Althea questions her chosen path and instead desires a future with him. There's struggle and there's steam, but the core of this story is human goodness and familial love. This is especially on display during an endearing, abundantly sweet Trewlove family Christmas. However, though the brothel ladies are charming, Beast's whole notion of changing them sometimes comes across as holier-than-thou, which doesn't jibe with the story's otherwise lovely overarching theme of everyone's inherent right to be loved and respected, regardless of class or situation. \n\nThis Sins for All Seasons series finale is full of heart.\n- Kirkus Reviews\n\n"Heath concludes her Sin for All Seasons series with a true treat of a Victorian romance...[she] may have saved the best for last." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n\n"This Sins for All Seasons series finale is full of heart." - Kirkus Reviews\n- From the Publisher
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