Scandalous Desires (Maiden Lane #3) -

Elizabeth Hoyt

Grand Central Publishing

2011

370 páginas

12h 20m

ISBN-10: 0749954507

Can a pirate learn that the only true treasure lies in a woman's heart?

Widowed Silence Hollingbrook is impoverished, lovely, and kind—and nine months ago she made a horrible mistake. She went to a river pirate for help in saving her husband and in the process made a bargain that cost her her marriage. That night wounded her so terribly that she hides in the foundling home she helps run with her brother. Except now that same river pirate is back . . . and he's asking for her help.

"Charming" Mickey O'Connor is the most ruthless river pirate in London. Devastatingly handsome and fearsomely intelligent, he clawed his way up through London's criminal underworld. Mickey has no use for tender emotions like compassion and love, and he sees people as pawns to be manipulated. And yet he's never been able to forget the naive captain's wife who came to him for help—and spent one memorable night in his bed . . . talking.

When his bastard baby girl was dumped in his lap—her mother having died—Mickey couldn't resist the Machiavellian urge to leave the baby on Silence's doorstep. The baby would be hidden from his enemies and he'd also bind Silence to him by her love for his daughter.

Resenhas (1)

4.5 (Muito bom)

PERFECT

How to describe this perfection???
- There are many shocking deaths (I will never forgive Fio's death)
- A traitor I loved at first
- Mick's Trial
- The vicar attacking Silence
- Revelation of the Ghost of St. Giles (so far I'm in shock with his identity).

It completely deviates from the "perfect" reality that other period series portray in London.
- There is corruption;
- Illegal activities;
- Lords who have titles do not 'work', but the other brothers are obliged to fulfill their duties with the army, clergy, navy.
- The disaster that the activities of the nobles in the 'periphery' cause among the poor.
- DEATHS.

It may even exist, but I have never seen another author deal with this subject in this way. This is the third series I've read by Elizabeth, and for me she always surpasses herself, you can feel the pain of the characters, you can feel the pain that the place carries.