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Wayborn Siblings #2
Surrender to Sin
To escape gossip in London due to a broken engagement and a stolen diamond, heiress Abigail Ritchie changes her name to Miss Smith, and leases a house in the country. Along with her chaperone - a hypochondriac accompanied by a full-time nurse - the trio escape to Hertfordshire. But once there they encounter mayhem, mishap, rustic fortune hunters, and a dangerously seductive but deeply indebted lord of the manor, Cary Wayborn.
Scandal continues to welcome Abigail with open arms...and so does Cary. When the two find themselves inadvertently surrendering to one night of white-hot passion and desire, Cary, a true gentleman, insists on marriage. Yet Miss Smith refuses his offer. Now, sorting through a gaggle of gossips, mischief, and conspiracy, he remains fearless and determined to claim a love as irresistible as the lady herself...
Scandal continues to welcome Abigail with open arms...and so does Cary. When the two find themselves inadvertently surrendering to one night of white-hot passion and desire, Cary, a true gentleman, insists on marriage. Yet Miss Smith refuses his offer. Now, sorting through a gaggle of gossips, mischief, and conspiracy, he remains fearless and determined to claim a love as irresistible as the lady herself...
411 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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May 27, 2016
You think by the cover going into this book that you are getting a smooth, sophisticated and sexy book. Then you remember this is a TL book and you realize it is really a Mel Brook's production in print. LOL and that is exactly what it was. It was at times hilarious with the verbal pratfalls that took place. I swear I could see Harvey Korman in some of these roles, even one female role that was made for him. Then Madelyn Khan could have done several. It was like a romantic History of the World and in the end, I still don't think our hero ever knew how much Abbie was worth or what her true last name was. It was pure TL that was for sure. I liked Julie in her book, our hero's sister, but I didn't like her here, she was too immature and needed to be spanked or something. I am going to start in on the next book in the series just to finish up the trilogy.
January 31, 2020
I picked this up based on a recommendation that it was similar to Georgette Heyer, I don't know if that's really what is happening here. I would say that this is like a Regency set screwball comedy - lots of action and misunderstandings, exaggerated and not entirely likable characters but with "sexy bits" (which the comedy professor in me wants to tell someone makes it definitely not screwball because in those films all the antic behavior is a substitute for sex). Romance novels rarely have titles that make much sense with their insides but Surrender to Sin feels particularly inapt for this collection of hijinks.
September 12, 2013
Confusion & Chaos ... those are my words to describe this one ...
Lolz... Tamara made me laugh again in this sequel , I enjoyed reading it
The characters were likeable , I liked the heroine and her innocence , & it was funny how in the beginning she never understood hero's jokes & sarcasm ...
Hero is witty , & careless , & trusts heroine with all his heart ...
What I was waiting for was the appearance of Ginger & Julia ...
I liked Julia in the previous novel , but she was not a good sister-in-law , or should I say , a very mean sister-in-law , Ginger was as always loving ..
But I loved their sweet-silly fight , that really made me laugh ..
I don't understand how could they let the villians simply go , but they did .. lolz..
Now that you don't see in usual novels ...
All in all it was fun ..
Lolz... Tamara made me laugh again in this sequel , I enjoyed reading it
The characters were likeable , I liked the heroine and her innocence , & it was funny how in the beginning she never understood hero's jokes & sarcasm ...
Hero is witty , & careless , & trusts heroine with all his heart ...
What I was waiting for was the appearance of Ginger & Julia ...
I liked Julia in the previous novel , but she was not a good sister-in-law , or should I say , a very mean sister-in-law , Ginger was as always loving ..
But I loved their sweet-silly fight , that really made me laugh ..
I don't understand how could they let the villians simply go , but they did .. lolz..
Now that you don't see in usual novels ...
All in all it was fun ..
March 8, 2017
Whatever happened to...
Surrender to Sin, by Tamera Lejeune, was written in 2007. I remember reading it when it first came out and I remember finding it funny. I also remember reading a couple more of Ms. Lejeune's books and then I stopped and then she just disappeared from Romanceland. I've done a lot of looking but could not find her anyplace. I don't believe she had a website even when she began to write. Maybe she just tired of trying to keep the momentum going and if you have read Surrender to Sin you will understand why I say that. This book was a cross between a fast-paced comedy (think His Girl Friday) and a Jerry Lewis movie (think The Lady's Man.) For those of you who don't enjoy fast-paced farce filled with characters who cross the line between loony and mean, this book isn't for you.
In this book we have Abigail, the very rich daughter of a tradesman by the name of Big Red Ritchie. He has made his money from producing the best scotch in the land. Abigail is a shy person, who has a head for financial matters. She can turn an idea into lots of money, she just can't talk to men. She has also just broken her engagement to her awful fiancé and must flee into the countryside to avoid the scandal. Her father rents her a cottage in the wilds of Hertfordshire. Little does she know that the owner of that cottage and the dilapidated estate attached to it belongs to the handsome stranger who helped her in London. That handsome guy is Cary Wayborn.
Even though Cary is in need of money, he also has a pretty cavalier attitude when it comes to ways to make the cash flow again. He has also been throwing away bills for the alcohol he bought from Red Ritchie. In fact, he doesn't like the man. He does not know that the woman he's been mooning over, Abigail, is Red's daughter. Then she arrives at the cottage. A tree has fallen on the rented cottage which leads to some pretty funny dialogue.
This book is hard to describe, because it's one misunderstanding after another. Mistaken identities abound. There are oodles of outrageous secondary characters - a vicious Macaw, a bird loving corgi, a senile nurse, an unpleasant chaperone, her sensual mysterious nurse, the gossipy neighbors, the actor, Abigail's ex-fiancé, Cary's sister and her fiancé. The entire cast of characters is outrageous. All of them plotting, lying, talking over each other. There's a kidnapping plot, a jewel thief/s, Bow Street Runners. My head was spinning just trying to keep up with all the shenanigans. I had laugh out loud moments, but also moments when I grew tired of all the racing around.
While I found this to be a pretty funny story, there were a couple of things which I had issues with. First of all, Cary's sister Juliet. Evidently Juliet was the heroine in the previous book and I don't remember that book at all. But in this book she was really quite an unpleasant character. She was immature, selfish and her treatment of her fiancé was horrible. I found her character to be terribly unlikable and could only wonder at the fact that she supposedly was the heroine from the first book. She needed to be put in her place, and nobody seemed to be able to. Abigail tried to stand up to her in part of the book, but I wish she had been just a little bit more powerful in confronting her.
The other quibble I had was this book was played mainly for laughs. I love humorous books - I think they are great and I'm always on the look-out for more. In those funny books I like a nice balance of romance and fun. For me the romance lost out to the wacky, zany comedy. Nice try though.
KaysBlog
Surrender to Sin, by Tamera Lejeune, was written in 2007. I remember reading it when it first came out and I remember finding it funny. I also remember reading a couple more of Ms. Lejeune's books and then I stopped and then she just disappeared from Romanceland. I've done a lot of looking but could not find her anyplace. I don't believe she had a website even when she began to write. Maybe she just tired of trying to keep the momentum going and if you have read Surrender to Sin you will understand why I say that. This book was a cross between a fast-paced comedy (think His Girl Friday) and a Jerry Lewis movie (think The Lady's Man.) For those of you who don't enjoy fast-paced farce filled with characters who cross the line between loony and mean, this book isn't for you.
In this book we have Abigail, the very rich daughter of a tradesman by the name of Big Red Ritchie. He has made his money from producing the best scotch in the land. Abigail is a shy person, who has a head for financial matters. She can turn an idea into lots of money, she just can't talk to men. She has also just broken her engagement to her awful fiancé and must flee into the countryside to avoid the scandal. Her father rents her a cottage in the wilds of Hertfordshire. Little does she know that the owner of that cottage and the dilapidated estate attached to it belongs to the handsome stranger who helped her in London. That handsome guy is Cary Wayborn.
Even though Cary is in need of money, he also has a pretty cavalier attitude when it comes to ways to make the cash flow again. He has also been throwing away bills for the alcohol he bought from Red Ritchie. In fact, he doesn't like the man. He does not know that the woman he's been mooning over, Abigail, is Red's daughter. Then she arrives at the cottage. A tree has fallen on the rented cottage which leads to some pretty funny dialogue.
This book is hard to describe, because it's one misunderstanding after another. Mistaken identities abound. There are oodles of outrageous secondary characters - a vicious Macaw, a bird loving corgi, a senile nurse, an unpleasant chaperone, her sensual mysterious nurse, the gossipy neighbors, the actor, Abigail's ex-fiancé, Cary's sister and her fiancé. The entire cast of characters is outrageous. All of them plotting, lying, talking over each other. There's a kidnapping plot, a jewel thief/s, Bow Street Runners. My head was spinning just trying to keep up with all the shenanigans. I had laugh out loud moments, but also moments when I grew tired of all the racing around.
While I found this to be a pretty funny story, there were a couple of things which I had issues with. First of all, Cary's sister Juliet. Evidently Juliet was the heroine in the previous book and I don't remember that book at all. But in this book she was really quite an unpleasant character. She was immature, selfish and her treatment of her fiancé was horrible. I found her character to be terribly unlikable and could only wonder at the fact that she supposedly was the heroine from the first book. She needed to be put in her place, and nobody seemed to be able to. Abigail tried to stand up to her in part of the book, but I wish she had been just a little bit more powerful in confronting her.
The other quibble I had was this book was played mainly for laughs. I love humorous books - I think they are great and I'm always on the look-out for more. In those funny books I like a nice balance of romance and fun. For me the romance lost out to the wacky, zany comedy. Nice try though.
KaysBlog
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February 21, 2021
first the cover is as detached from the content of the book as the moon is as far from earth. too bad that these covers get more prurient and artificial that they demean the contents. I say, what is the point here?
Point removed for cover.
The book was a similar to walking whilst not terribly sober, it tottered from one side to another, leaping from plot to plot, sometimes making no sense whatsoever. It was truly a regency romance the was a Marx brothers brilliant performance with the ballast of its a mad, mad, mad world. if you haven't seen its a mad world, your cultural profile is deficient, Everyone is in it.
Any everyone is in this farce, mishap, perils of pauline, and love story for the ages. I still want to know how Cato got away from Angel, my only solution it was a planted stage set with feathers and fake blood. There were characters you could hate, there were some you wanted to pound into a board like nails, there were some that never made it to the surface, there were some you wanted to slap, kick, or pull hair. And Abigail was just a little too naive in bravery and courage, but more than willing to have her brains f-ed out. The conversations that went past each other on different trajectories were much fun. The finding of the miniatures of King Henry 8 with wives and children was amazing. Cary was a town blade in poverty exile. No one knew who was who or what was where. Hell, even though it had this feculent cover [look that word up, will give it four stars for the boundaries to the ridiculous it crossed and returned. Thanks Tamara, nice evening getaway
Point removed for cover.
The book was a similar to walking whilst not terribly sober, it tottered from one side to another, leaping from plot to plot, sometimes making no sense whatsoever. It was truly a regency romance the was a Marx brothers brilliant performance with the ballast of its a mad, mad, mad world. if you haven't seen its a mad world, your cultural profile is deficient, Everyone is in it.
Any everyone is in this farce, mishap, perils of pauline, and love story for the ages. I still want to know how Cato got away from Angel, my only solution it was a planted stage set with feathers and fake blood. There were characters you could hate, there were some you wanted to pound into a board like nails, there were some that never made it to the surface, there were some you wanted to slap, kick, or pull hair. And Abigail was just a little too naive in bravery and courage, but more than willing to have her brains f-ed out. The conversations that went past each other on different trajectories were much fun. The finding of the miniatures of King Henry 8 with wives and children was amazing. Cary was a town blade in poverty exile. No one knew who was who or what was where. Hell, even though it had this feculent cover [look that word up, will give it four stars for the boundaries to the ridiculous it crossed and returned. Thanks Tamara, nice evening getaway
January 27, 2022
Not my cuppa, which was my impression the first time I read it, but the title and author had both left my memory until I began re-reading.
January 24, 2013
I really enjoyed this book. I had lot of laughs from the dialog between the hero and heroine. I especially cracked up when the two, after both are involved in an accident and treated with laudlam, find themselves together and arguing about whose dream the other is featured in:
“I am thinking of a number,” he repeated severely. “If this is your dream, you will know what that number is. Wrong!” he cried triumphantly when she guessed seven.
“Just a moment,” Abigail said, scrabbling farther into the bed as he made a wild grab for her. She stopped when she reached the headboard of carved black oak. “I am thinking of a number, too. If this is your dream, sir, tell me: what is that number?”
He laughed softly, crawling after her. “My dear girl, you are not thinking of a number. You are thinking about rubbing yourself all over me like a cat.”
Abigail gasped. “How could you possibly know what I’m thinking?”
“You told me,” he pointed out. “Besides, women don’t think about numbers when they are in bed with me.”
Much of the book has this kind of banter between the characters and that made it a quick read. Nothing too dark or heavy, just a fun way to pass a few hours. I will say that if you like your historical novels to be accurate in character and language, this is not the book for you. There is a definite mix of modern that even I noticed (and I don't normally catch on to it a lot of times).
“I am thinking of a number,” he repeated severely. “If this is your dream, you will know what that number is. Wrong!” he cried triumphantly when she guessed seven.
“Just a moment,” Abigail said, scrabbling farther into the bed as he made a wild grab for her. She stopped when she reached the headboard of carved black oak. “I am thinking of a number, too. If this is your dream, sir, tell me: what is that number?”
He laughed softly, crawling after her. “My dear girl, you are not thinking of a number. You are thinking about rubbing yourself all over me like a cat.”
Abigail gasped. “How could you possibly know what I’m thinking?”
“You told me,” he pointed out. “Besides, women don’t think about numbers when they are in bed with me.”
Much of the book has this kind of banter between the characters and that made it a quick read. Nothing too dark or heavy, just a fun way to pass a few hours. I will say that if you like your historical novels to be accurate in character and language, this is not the book for you. There is a definite mix of modern that even I noticed (and I don't normally catch on to it a lot of times).
January 10, 2013
A delightful romantic comedy, light hearted with flamboyant characters.
The hero is a charming scoundrel with a rye sense of humor (loved the scene after the dog ate the parrot. The heroine champions the dog for behaving like the carnivor he is. The hero counters, "Right. It's the bird's fault for being so tasty.")
The heroine is shy (but not timid) with wobbly self-esteem and a love of Scotch whiskey. She doesn't know how to handle the hero's teasing that he uses as a defense when he's nervous or uncertain. Around her that is a normal occurance.
Though the story is somewhat slow to begin, there are many memorable scenes as the story progreses, which is why I gave five stars. I will remember this story for quite a while.
I loved the scene when they are both under the influence of a heavy dose of laudlum and try to figure out whose dream they are living. (Hero says" "I'll pick a number between one and ten. If it's your dream you will know the number." When the heroine guesses wrong she says, "I'll pick a number this time and if you know it, then it's your dream." Hero replies, "You are not thinking of a number. You are thinking of rubbing your body on mine like a cat." Heroine replies, "Right. It's your dream then.")
Loved it!
The hero is a charming scoundrel with a rye sense of humor (loved the scene after the dog ate the parrot. The heroine champions the dog for behaving like the carnivor he is. The hero counters, "Right. It's the bird's fault for being so tasty.")
The heroine is shy (but not timid) with wobbly self-esteem and a love of Scotch whiskey. She doesn't know how to handle the hero's teasing that he uses as a defense when he's nervous or uncertain. Around her that is a normal occurance.
Though the story is somewhat slow to begin, there are many memorable scenes as the story progreses, which is why I gave five stars. I will remember this story for quite a while.
I loved the scene when they are both under the influence of a heavy dose of laudlum and try to figure out whose dream they are living. (Hero says" "I'll pick a number between one and ten. If it's your dream you will know the number." When the heroine guesses wrong she says, "I'll pick a number this time and if you know it, then it's your dream." Hero replies, "You are not thinking of a number. You are thinking of rubbing your body on mine like a cat." Heroine replies, "Right. It's your dream then.")
Loved it!
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August 5, 2013
The smart and snappy dialogue in this book kept me grinning and laughing from beginning to end. From the living-trash-compactor corgi to the horrifying attack-McCaw, every character added something ridiculous and delightful to the story.
I found the plot quite ludicrous, but it goes so well with the over-the-top characters, I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you like historical romances, humor, explicit sex, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, and Wordsworth, you'll like this book.
I found the plot quite ludicrous, but it goes so well with the over-the-top characters, I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you like historical romances, humor, explicit sex, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, and Wordsworth, you'll like this book.
September 3, 2024
I really don’t think I’ve laughed quite as much as I did the last few chapters, although I’ve laughed considerably reading her other books in this series. Wonderful characters. Cary is a sexy scoundrel and - though it took me a little while to warm to her - Abby proved to be winning and adorable. It was also a treat to see Geoffrey and Juliet (“Simply Scandalous”) again. Absolutely loved it.
April 27, 2008
Fast pace historical romance with a lot of wit!
I laughed so often I thought of this book as a chic lit in a historical kind of way.
I laughed so often I thought of this book as a chic lit in a historical kind of way.
November 17, 2010
More farce than romance. Could easily have been a four, but the final chapter got stupid!
November 9, 2013
2.5-3
December 14, 2013
Well written and fairly amusing in parts but not a patch on Simply Scandalous which I loved so slight disappointing.
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