A Perilous Passion

Wanton in Wessex, Book 1

Miss Charlotte Allston is unwittingly ensnared in a sinister web of traitors and spies when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome stranger on the beach. Fiercely determined to redeem his honor after a humiliating military defeat, the Earl of Beckport is living incognito, hunting a band of smugglers at the center of a French plot to invade England.

The enigmatic Miss Allston instantly becomes a person of interest to the earl . . . and not just in the smuggling case. Passion flares swift and hot between the two. But when her attempts to help with his secret mission only endanger it, he must question where her loyalty truly lies.

Stunned by the sudden revelation that the woman he is falling for is the daughter of a notorious smuggler, Beckport feels duty-bound to report her. But then Charlotte is captured by the very traitor he's after, forcing the earl to decide between redemption . . . and love.

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Elizabeth Keysian (P)2022 Tantor

DNF for a good reason

First the narrator has the most grating cadence to her speech that is unnatural. Almost all of her sentences end with a raising then lowering of her pitch.

Second, the characters inner monologues repeat their situation over and over again. That isn’t natural either.

The female lead’s family changes their last name and the ML changes his identity disguising himself by shaving his mustache and growing his hair longer. England is small so their faces would be very recognizable as we soon find out with the mother knowing the ML’s true identity.

The story is very immature and not well written.