Sinful Between the Sheets

Carlisle Family #2

by Barbara Pierce

Fayne Carlisle is not yet ready to assume the title of Duke of Solitea, but his father's sudden death means that his lusty bachelor days are numbered. Is the fabled Solitea Curse to blame for this stroke of ill luck? Or is Lady Kilby Fitchwolf the poison? A violet-eyed beauty with a family scandal of her own, she has just arrived among the ton…and soon becomes the object of the Duke's wildest fantasies.
 
But are the rumors true? Was Fayne's father really found dead in Lady Kilby's very bedchambers? And if so, should that preclude the duke from keeping her company? Surely there's no more pleasurable way to perish. But as the duke comes to know the beautiful siren, it seems she couldn't be less interested in seducing him--and what begins for the Duke as romantic sport escalates into a do-or-die courtship that brings the two lovers dangerously close to falling in love.

Genres: Historical, Historical Romance, Romance

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 3, 2007

About the author

Having a rich English ancestry that can be traced back to the 1500s, BARBARA PIERCE credits her grandmother and the romantic family tales she was told as a child for inspiring her early fascination with English history.

Striving to balance her love of history with the need to tell a compelling story, she debuted in 2000 with A Desperate Game. Since then, she has created two successful family series, the Bedegraynes and the Carlisles.

In 2006, the first book in the Carlisle series, Wicked Under the Covers was nominated by Romantic Times for their prestigious Reviewer's Choice Award for Most Sensual Historical. In 2007, Sinful Between the Sheets received the same nomination, and went on to win the award.

Barbara also writes Regency historicals under the pseudonym, Alexandra Hawkins. Her popular Lords of Vice series continues to hit the USA Today Bestseller lists. To learn more about this series, visit her website at: www.alexandrahawkins.com

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was just ok. Both main characters weren't really likable to me, which caused me to lose interest in the plot.

[Toula · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book 2 in the series . Hero is Fayne . Heroine is Kilby.

[Kristi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The ending did surprise me a little bit...

[Kathrynn · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one rang several of my "things I hate in a book" bells. For starters, the main male character (Fayne) was a spoiled womanizer who didn't know the first thing about earning a living. He had his life handed to him on a silver platter and was very selfish. To make matters worse (and ring more bells), Fayne hung around with equally spoiled womanizers.

Fayne and his "friends" lives consisted of partying all night and sleeping in the next day to get up and start all over. They even laughed about sharing their women (another bell ringer). They had a reputation of treating women horribly (bell!), sleeping with married women (bell!)...

I kept thinking Fayne would develop a conscience and redeem himself, but it was too little too late for This Reader.

As for the female main character, Kilby, she deserved better than Fayne. She was very likable and the only reason I persevered to the very end.

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Despite niggling historical inaccuracies, characters with names that clunked and clattered in my mouth, and a certain unevenness to the pacing and flow of the story, I didn't dislike this book. I even rather enjoyed the characters and their intrigues. But the romance lacked a certain tenderness, a sense of truth or honesty---vulnerability---and without that, all the mechanics of the novel felt like exactly that: mechanics, a clockwork of details without heart or soul.

[Mitzi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty Good Book. This is 4th book by Pierce.

[Lynn Calvin]

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[Busygirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad but I found it a bit all over the place.

[Gypsie Holley · Rating 3 out of 5]

a good fluff read

[Lynda · Rating 2 out of 5]

a quick read some abusive relationships explored.

[RomLibrary]

Fayne Carlisle is not yet ready to assume the title of Duke of Solitea, but his father's sudden death means that his lusty bachelor days are numbered. Is the fabled Solitea Curse to blame for this stroke of ill luck? Or is Lady Kilby Fitchwolf the poison? A violet-eyed beauty with a family scandal of her own, she has just arrived among the ton…and soon becomes the object of the Duke's wildest fantasies.

But are the rumors true? Was Fayne's father really found dead in Lady Kilby's very bedchambers? And if so, should that preclude the duke from keeping her company? Surely there's no more pleasurable way to perish. But as the duke comes to know the beautiful siren, it seems she couldn't be less interested in seducing him--and what begins for the Duke as romantic sport escalates into a do-or-die courtship that brings the two lovers dangerously close to falling in love.