A Delicate Seduction: A Harwell Heirs Legacy Romance

Regina Kammer

Oct 2023 · Harwell Heirs Book 4 · Viridium Press

About this ebook

Love is patient…but desire is demanding

Percival Wood, the Marquess of Norrington, is free. His former lover Jack—a blackguard and a brute—is dead. Percival no longer needs to hide. While his father insists Percival take the opportunity to rejoin Society, Percival has other plans. He wants to get away, far away from the traumas of his past.

For years, Bertram Atherley, the Viscount Ravensburgh, had waited on the sidelines, helpless while his cousin Jack had been a cruel beast to his boyhood chum Percival. Now Jack was dead, and Bertram is eager to resume his friendship with Percival. This time, though, Bertram feels something more than mere camaraderie.

At Percival’s behest the two set off on a Grand Tour of sorts, a journey from England to Italy and France. While abroad, friendship blossoms into something more. But trauma and pain have a way of reasserting themselves no matter where one may go. For Percival, intimacy with Bertram dredges up old wounds. Yet Bertram has waited so long for a chance to woo his boyhood crush and his patience is running out.

Will the two be able to overcome inner struggles and embark on a future together in each other’s arms?

A Delicate Seduction is Book 4 in Regina Kammer’s Victorian erotic romance Harwell Heirs series. The story takes place in 1879, at the same time as Book 1, and is a male-male slow-burn, childhood friends-to-lovers, vacation abroad, historical romance. Interwoven with the romance is a story-within-a-story featuring a pirate hunter and his trusty mate. A Delicate Seduction can be read as a stand-alone; however, the novel is enhanced by first reading The Pleasure Device.

The Harwell Heirs

Victorian aristocracy has very strict rules concerning marital connections and familial obligations. But the Harwell heirs—Helena, Sophia, and Arthur—discover love doesn’t always follow the rules. Scandalous affairs force these scions of society to choose between duty and desire, deference and destiny.

Book 1: The Pleasure Device

Book 2: Disobedience By Design

Book 3: Where Destiny Plays

Harwell Heirs Legacy Romances

Travel beyond England’s shores for these stories featuring beloved secondary characters from the first three books of the series. The Legacy novels delve into the romances of the friends, family, and intimates of the extended Harwell family.

Book 4: A Delicate Seduction

Book 5: Discovering Her Delight

Book 6: Their Noble Deceit

Keywords: Male-Male romance, Historical male-male romance, Victorian romance, gay romance, Slow burn romance, Friends to lovers romance, Childhood friends to lovers romance, Vacation romance, Hero with emotional scars

Ratings and reviews

To start I must say that the title fit Percival and Bertram romance extremely well. The author approaches the sensitive subject matter, the couple's blossoming romance, and Percival's wounded heart and bruised soul with a delicate sweetness. I went into this book well aware that the burn would be slow, which was perfectly fitting, and while I liked this book a lot, I also would have liked it all to be a bit grittier and more intense as far as the emotions went.

Percy's ex was abusive to him. His ex is dead now but Percy doesn't know if he can love again. Bertram has been Percy's friend since they were children but now he wants more. He knows he has to be patient with Percy but he will do anything to make Percy his. I really enjoyed this book.

About the author

Regina Kammer is a librarian, an art historian, and an award-winning, best-selling, multi-published writer of provocative historical romance and contemporary romance with a touch of history. Her short stories and novels make history sexier, whether the era is Roman, Byzantine, Viking, American Revolution, or Victorian. She’s even sexed up contemporary settings, Steampunk, and Greco-Roman mythology. She has been published by Cleis Press, Go Deeper Press, Ellora’s Cave, House of Erotica, Story Ink, Loose Id, The Naughty Literati, and her own imprint, Viridium Press. She began writing historical fiction with romantic elements during National Novel Writing Month 2006, switching to erotic romance when all her characters suddenly demanded to have sex.