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The Price of Desire
by Leda Swann
Body
and Soul Desire
The desire to have
someone body and soul turns into love in this erotic historical romance
tale of the beautiful young and innocent virgin Caroline Clemons who
suddenly finds herself and her siblings penniless after the suicide of
her prominent society banker father. She is depending on the honor of
Captain Bellamy to hold to their engagement agreement. When he breaks
the engagement and offers her the position of mistress instead of wife,
Caroline is devastated. She sees her father's way as the easy way out.
As she sits in the conservatory at a society gathering and plans the
taking of her siblings life and herself, the handsome and wealthy
Dominic Savage approaches her. He is under the misconception that she
is the widow of the now deceased banker. He has desired her for his
mistress from the moment he saw her across the room. Thinking this is
to be her last evening alive, she gives up her innocence to Dominic
with such passion that he wants her body and soul. Later that night,
Caroline discovers she cannot go through with her plan and the
following morning she and her siblings enter the local workhouse. Once
again the evil Captain Bellamy tries to manipulate her to becoming his
mistress and arranges it so that she is removed from the workhouse. As
she and her siblings are being removed to the streets once again,
Dominic steps in to rescue her. Now that she has no other alternative
and he appears to be more honest and upfront in his offer, and mostly
because she cannot forget the passion and pleasure she experienced when
he took her virginity, she takes him up on his offer. He takes her and
her family in and provides a home, education and dowries. She in turn
is to provide him with every desire and pleasure and he will teach her
everything he has learned about pleasure in India. At first Caroline is
shy and uncomfortable, but soon learns to make the best of the
arrangement. When Dominic takes her on a trip to spend time at a house
of pleasure called Sugar and Spice, he comes to realize that he does
not want to share Caroline with any other man. He discovers that he not
only wants her to belong to him body and soul - he now wants to win her
heart. He then begins to court her, but when a strange twist of fate
causes him to lose his fortune, he can no longer keep her and she moves
to the small estate given to her by Dominic in their original
agreement. Caroline is then pursued by numerous gentlemen desiring her
pleasures, but it is only Dominic that fills her thoughts and desires.
When she finally has no choice but to offer herself up for auction in
order to continuing supporting herself and her siblings, one bidder
offers "...my love for you, because that is all I have to offer." The
Price of Desire is a passionate, moving story of hardship, desire,
passion and love that is not only a good sensual story, but
well-written with substance. An excellent erotic read.
Publisher: HarperCollins (January 2007)
Reviewed
by Beverly,
Beverly Romance Books
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