Book two-forty-four: Potent Pleasures

Potent Pleasures (1999)
Eloisa James

Rating: 4/5

I love Elosia James’s books. They are all soooo good. I think this was the first book she published and even though she has gotten better over the last ten or so books, it was still really good. I read it in one sitting. (I mean, that’s not particularly unusual, but in this case I was very cranky when people tried to talk to me).

Nothing is more seductive than temptation.

Reckless desire sends Charlotte Daicheston into the garden with a dashing masked stranger. He's powerful, unforgettable, a devastatingly handsome footman who lures her--not against her will--into a grand indiscretion at a masquerade ball. Then he vanishes.

Several years later, after Charlotte has made her dazzling debut in London society, they meet again. But the rogue is no footman. He's rich, titled, and he doesn't remember Charlotte. Worse, he's the subject of some scandalous gossip: rumor has it, the earl's virility is in question.

Charlotte, who knows all too intimately the power of his passion, is stunned by the gossip that has set society ablaze. At last, there can be a storybook ending...unless, of course, Charlotte's one mad indiscretion had not been with him at all....

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Finished: Sunday 30/12