(Under the category of “most memorable love scenes in romance,” I will be adding “sex on the train to Monte Carlo”). Eventually she manages to send her chaperone off to Italy while she and Alex attend a scandalous house party in Monte Carlo.
Under Alex’s tutelage, she finds herself giving false names, pretending to be a showgirl, and entering scandalous areas of the Moulin Rouge. At first she starts small, eating at a cafe alone (and wildly breaking dishes). Though she has a chaperone with her, she manages to strike out on her own. Once in Paris, Gwen really wants to spread her wings. However, anyone who’s read a romance or two will know why he’s really going: He’s in love with Gwen. Ostensibly, he’s fulfilling his promise to her brother and watching out for her. Nonetheless, Alex puts off his own business interests in Peru and takes off for Paris in pursuit of Gwen. Alex won’t let her post her letter, and doesn’t quite believe her when she says she intends to follow Pennington to Paris to retrieve her brother’s ring. She writes a letter to her former fiance, Viscount Pennington, detailing all of his flaws (critiquing everything from his horrible dancing to his kissing abilities – or lack thereof).Īs Gwen is about to post her letter, she runs into Alex Ramsey, who was her late brother’s best friend and business partner. Afterward, while her friends debate the best location for her to hide her face from society, Gwen snaps. Nonetheless, as the book begins, Gwen finds herself jilted for the second time – and this time during the marriage ceremony. Particularly the cash-strapped aristocracy. Although she doesn’t have the perfect pedigree (her father made his fortune by patenting dyes), her looks, wealth, and genteel upbringing would seem to give her entree into the aristocracy. The quintessential “nice girl,” she’s known as everyone’s best friend. Gwen Maudsley is attractive and perennially popular.
Sexy, inventive, and riveting, it’s a book that’s hard to put down and a joy to read. It’s a lush European Historical romance that takes the reader from turn-of-the-century London to Paris to Monte Carlo.
Meredith Duran has thrown down the gauntlet: Wicked Becomes You is the book to beat for best historical romance this year.
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