In the Thrill of the Night by Candice Hern
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(Mass Market Paperback)
- Pub. Date: February 2006
- 304pp
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2006
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 304pp
- Series: Merry Widows Ser.
- ISBN-13: 9780451217844
- ISBN: 0451217845
Synopsis
Assured of both money and position, none of the five respectable ladies who form the Merry Widows need ever marry again, so they make a daring pact-each will consider taking a lover for the pure pleasure of it.
Marianne Nesbitt adored her late husband David, but the racy reminiscences of the Merry Widows make her wonder if she missed something special. Might she find it now through a love affair? Uncertain how to go about it, she asks Adam Cazenove, an old friend and notorious rake, to tutor her in the arts of seduction-a brazen request that turns Adam's world upside down.
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Heartwarming & Start to Great Series!by Anonymous
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December 16, 2006: In the Thrill of the Night is a wonderful start to another sexy and heartwarming romance series. Candice Hern pulls off the complicated relationship between the Marianne and Adam very well. A best friend to David, Adam continues his friendship with David's widow, Marianne, and comes to realize that his deep friendship for Marianne has really been love all along, and Marianne comes to realize that her love for David was really friendship and that Adam is the one to give her the passion and love that she did not have in her marriage to David. The struggle of this realization between Marianne and Adam while passion flames between them keeps the reader captivated. The only criticism is that I longed for even more passion and love scenes between the characters, as Ms. Hern knows how to write wonderful love scenes. I am looking forward to the rest of the series and the other Merry Widows as they find passion and ultimately love.
An amusing chick lit regencyby harstan
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December 13, 2005: In 1813 the five wealthy Merry Widows serve as the board of trustees for the Benevolent Widows Fund. Though their late spouses were kind individuals each has vowed to not marry again as they like the freedom death provided them. One of the quintet, Lady Gosworth tells her companions that she spent the winter warmed by a youthful lover. Grace, Beatrice and Marianne are shocked while Wilhelmina just smiles. The ladies agree to consider lovers and to continue to support one another regardless.---- Marianne turns to her late husband?s best friend Adam Cazenove, a noted rake, for guidance. He detests the thought of Marianne with a lover though he rationalizes that the memory of David may be why he rejects the idea. She persuades him to go over her list of possible candidates, but he finds a reason to eliminate most those he cannot cross off in good conscience he plans to stop any tryst from happening. If anyone is going to sleep with Marianne it will be him though he is betrothed to Clarissa Leighton-Blair and he fears he is not the man that David was.----- IN THE THRILL OF THE NIGHT is an amusing chick lit regency due to the wild antics of the lead male. Though Adam is engaged and rejects the notion of twenty-nine years old Marianne remaining celibate the rest of her life (he assumes marriage one day), he cannot tolerate any of those pretenders sleeping with her so he performs humorous intercessions to prevent the men from doing so. Fans will enjoy his zany escapades as he eventually realizes that he loves Marianne, but doubts she reciprocates because he assumes David filled her soul.---- Harriet Klausner
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