Wicked Intentions

Elizabeth Hoyt

Aug 2010 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author who Lisa Kleypas hails as "too good to be true" comes the first book in her beloved Maiden Lane series.

A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . .

Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand-she's spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk . . .

A WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST . . .

Caire makes a simple offer-in return for Temperance's help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London's high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control-one that may well destroy them both.

A BARGAIN NEITHER COULD REFUSE

Ratings and reviews

This book is better than I expected. I recommend it to anyone looking for mystery, steamy romance (which I can do without), a great plot, and my favorite aspect of the book a dark, moody kind of suspense. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because of the "Ghost of St. Giles" bandit or vigilante was just a little too hard to believe for me. But all-in-all it ended up being a great book.

I read it in one sitting. I was a little put off at first by him not liking to be touched. After reading the 50 shades of grey books by half way through the second they just became repetitive. But putting that aside, I really loved this book. I'm a first time reader of Elizabeth Hoyt and I can't wait to read the rest of the maiden lane books. I'm already in love with how all if her characters are tied together. I found myself enjoying the actual story line and not skimming through to the "good stuff" lol.

This is an entertaining story. It's in the past, but she's a strong female lead. She runs an orphanage and needs a wealthy donor to help fund it. He needs a partner to help him try to find someone who is brutally murdering women, mostly prostitutes if I remember correctly. They develop feelings of course, but they both have other issues. She has a checkered romantic past. He has a fetish for tying lovers up. It was definitely worth my time reading it.

About the author

Elizabeth Hoyt is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-three lush historical romances, including the Maiden Lane series. Publishers Weekly has called her writing "mesmerizing" and in 2018 she received the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award for Historical Romance. She also pens deliciously fun contemporary romances under the name Julia Harper. Elizabeth lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with three untrained dogs, a garden in constant need of weeding, and the long-suffering Mr. Hoyt.

The winters in Minnesota have been known to be long and cold and Elizabeth is always thrilled to receive reader mail. You can write to her at PO Box 19495, Minneapolis, MN 55419 or email her at [e-mail].