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Sinful Seduction: They met and loved passionately in a time of revolution
They met and loved passionately in a time of revolution. Anne McIntyre, a schoolmistress in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey at the outset of the American Revolution, is serious-minded, intelligent, and patriotic. Anne supports her sister in her marital problems and helps the ironmaster’s widow manage a difficult situation with her daughter. Peter Kensington should have been an earl, but thanks to the duplicity of his younger brother and his own reckless nature, he has ended up an officer in the colonial war. Spying is alien to his gentlemanly code. Yet he must do exactly that. Anne is suspicious of him from the first but as passionately attracted to him as he is to her. PUBLISHER Historical M/F Romance. Love Triangle. 89,000 words. Praise for Jacqueline "Jacqueline Seewald's Tea Leaves and Tarot Cards delivers an unusual and intriguing heroine together with fast-paced historical romantic-suspense. Seewald is very much at home in her early 19th century setting." — Jayne Ann Krentz
263 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2019
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November 10, 2019
Conflict Conflict Conflict
Jacqueline Seewald’s mastery of detail brings you right to the New Jersey Pine Barrens during the American Revolution.
Those who choose to read her book for a passionate, well-orchestrated love story will not be disappointed. She expertly delivers that as she keeps uncertain to the end the fate our provincial but beautiful heroine Anne and the debonair Mr. Peter Smythe. But is he who he pretends to be?
The conflict between the lovers unfolds against other conflicts: the hard edge between a patriot and a traitor, the choice between duty and desire, and the struggle for power within two wealthy families.
The story advances quickly so heed my warning: Prepare your excuses. This book will surely keep you reading beyond your allotted time.
Jacqueline Seewald’s mastery of detail brings you right to the New Jersey Pine Barrens during the American Revolution.
Those who choose to read her book for a passionate, well-orchestrated love story will not be disappointed. She expertly delivers that as she keeps uncertain to the end the fate our provincial but beautiful heroine Anne and the debonair Mr. Peter Smythe. But is he who he pretends to be?
The conflict between the lovers unfolds against other conflicts: the hard edge between a patriot and a traitor, the choice between duty and desire, and the struggle for power within two wealthy families.
The story advances quickly so heed my warning: Prepare your excuses. This book will surely keep you reading beyond your allotted time.
March 7, 2020
Anne McIntyre is brave, intelligent and determined to do what’s right, even if it involves avoiding her most debonair admirer who tempts her at every turn. Rescued from the clutches of dangerous highway men by the unknown, Peter Smythe, she is indebted to him for her virtue and her life, but it is those two things she may very well be asked to surrender to the handsome rogue.
Anne is the picture of a revolutionary school mistress, modest, proper, and the perfect match for the gentle reverend, even if his overbearing mother has other inclinations. Living in the remote Pine Barrens, during the unsteady period of the American Revolution, Anne has set her future on a safe and sure course, but when her knight in not so shining armor keeps showing up at the most unsuspecting places, demanding the one thing she isn’t willing to give, a passion awakens inside her that the prim school mistress can’t tamp down.
The chaos of war and falling in love is difficult, but making the right choices is hard when your heart pumps with conflicting emotions. Peter Smythe’s mysterious presence, her honor bound betrothal to the reverend and the many difficulties created by her family and friends tear at her defenses and test her dignity. Lines are drawn in the sand and boundaries are definitely crossed,landing Anne in the hands of her sinful seducer once more, but who is Peter Smythe and will he redeem his honor for her.
Seewald weaves a romantic tale full of difficult choices and smoldering passion. It’s not the typical regency romance that has a sure ending, but instead, a twisting, titillating story that will have you intrigued to know the outcome between the too-handsome, devilish captain and the proper school mistress with a feisty temper and an iron-clad moral consternation. Don’t miss this page turning, steamy, historical romance.
Anne is the picture of a revolutionary school mistress, modest, proper, and the perfect match for the gentle reverend, even if his overbearing mother has other inclinations. Living in the remote Pine Barrens, during the unsteady period of the American Revolution, Anne has set her future on a safe and sure course, but when her knight in not so shining armor keeps showing up at the most unsuspecting places, demanding the one thing she isn’t willing to give, a passion awakens inside her that the prim school mistress can’t tamp down.
The chaos of war and falling in love is difficult, but making the right choices is hard when your heart pumps with conflicting emotions. Peter Smythe’s mysterious presence, her honor bound betrothal to the reverend and the many difficulties created by her family and friends tear at her defenses and test her dignity. Lines are drawn in the sand and boundaries are definitely crossed,landing Anne in the hands of her sinful seducer once more, but who is Peter Smythe and will he redeem his honor for her.
Seewald weaves a romantic tale full of difficult choices and smoldering passion. It’s not the typical regency romance that has a sure ending, but instead, a twisting, titillating story that will have you intrigued to know the outcome between the too-handsome, devilish captain and the proper school mistress with a feisty temper and an iron-clad moral consternation. Don’t miss this page turning, steamy, historical romance.
April 20, 2020
I admire people who can write across the board - Contemporary, YA, Historical, Mysteries and Jacqueline Seewald is one of my favorite authors. Trust me when I say she is not a best-selling author for nothing.
Sinful Seduction had all the elements of a Revolutionary Romance novel!
The characters were well developed, the love scenes tastefully done.
Kudos for another great read.
Sinful Seduction had all the elements of a Revolutionary Romance novel!
The characters were well developed, the love scenes tastefully done.
Kudos for another great read.
December 1, 2019
Henry: “We must strive to keep our relationship on as high a spiritual level of purity as possible. . . . Lust is a mortal sin.”
Peter: “Can you kiss me but once and have it lead no further? . . . Do you have any idea how desperately I want you?”
Anne: She must run from him as if from the devil . . . How much longer could she find the strength to deny him? 119 .
This novel, set during the American Revolution, is described by the publisher as “historical romance, love triangle.” The heroine is Anna, who combines a liberated woman’s courage and education (she kills a highwayman attempting to rob her stagecoach, reads Enlightenment books, and teaches school) with a strong Calvinistic idealization of women’s purity. She believes that virtuous women should not feel sexual passion--or if they do, they must suppress it. She is engaged to a minister, Henry, who believes this also. But then Anna meets Peter, a handsome, charming British spy who has been a rogue and womanizer. As soon as Peter sees Anna, he becomes infatuated with her beauty and, not used to women denying him, tries repeatedly to seduce her—often coming close to rape. Though Anna melts when he forcibly kisses and caresses her, she views him as the devil and repeatedly rejects him.
Given the Revolutionary War setting of the novel, it is perhaps appropriate that the conflict evokes an eighteenth-century literary tradition. Samuel Richard’s Clarissa (1747-48), portrays an ideally pure heroine who is attracted to but resists the wiles of the rake, Lovelace; Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Heloise (1760) portrays a the heroine’s passionate love affair contrasted to her later rational marriage. These two novels overtly champion the “purity” of women, but many readers saw in them an idealization of passion. Sinful Seduction’s “love triangle” of Anna, Henry, and Peter deals with the same conflict and themes. Although written in a very different era, this story perhaps shows that human nature is not so much changed.
I received an ARC of this novel.
Peter: “Can you kiss me but once and have it lead no further? . . . Do you have any idea how desperately I want you?”
Anne: She must run from him as if from the devil . . . How much longer could she find the strength to deny him? 119 .
This novel, set during the American Revolution, is described by the publisher as “historical romance, love triangle.” The heroine is Anna, who combines a liberated woman’s courage and education (she kills a highwayman attempting to rob her stagecoach, reads Enlightenment books, and teaches school) with a strong Calvinistic idealization of women’s purity. She believes that virtuous women should not feel sexual passion--or if they do, they must suppress it. She is engaged to a minister, Henry, who believes this also. But then Anna meets Peter, a handsome, charming British spy who has been a rogue and womanizer. As soon as Peter sees Anna, he becomes infatuated with her beauty and, not used to women denying him, tries repeatedly to seduce her—often coming close to rape. Though Anna melts when he forcibly kisses and caresses her, she views him as the devil and repeatedly rejects him.
Given the Revolutionary War setting of the novel, it is perhaps appropriate that the conflict evokes an eighteenth-century literary tradition. Samuel Richard’s Clarissa (1747-48), portrays an ideally pure heroine who is attracted to but resists the wiles of the rake, Lovelace; Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Heloise (1760) portrays a the heroine’s passionate love affair contrasted to her later rational marriage. These two novels overtly champion the “purity” of women, but many readers saw in them an idealization of passion. Sinful Seduction’s “love triangle” of Anna, Henry, and Peter deals with the same conflict and themes. Although written in a very different era, this story perhaps shows that human nature is not so much changed.
I received an ARC of this novel.
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