The initial pages of this book in which Eden and Jack meet in Venezuela get the book off to a great start, but the author really shines in the section of the book encompassing the sea voyage. Eventually, she does what young heroines always do in romances: she stows away. Eden first directly asks Jack to take her to London and he refuses. Lord Jack Knight – and his ship – provides the means.

When her father informs her that not only does he plan to stay, but that he plans to go deeper into the jungle, Eden determines to take matters into her own hands. With the funding for her father’s research now cut off and with revolution brewing, Eden firmly believes that it’s time for her and her father to return to the London she barely remembers but can’t stop dreaming about. It is on a trip on a remote river that he meets Eden Farraday, the daughter of a well known medical researcher who’s lived for years in the Venezuelan jungles. Now a powerful and successful owner of a fleet of ships who lives the good life in Jamaica, the former pirate finds himself in Venezuela agreeing to aid the supporters of Bolivar by returning to London for the first time in many years and bringing back soldiers to aid the revolutionaries. But, on the other hand, for the first two-thirds of the book, you’ve got something here.įor those who’ve stuck with all of the author’s books in the Knight family series – and I have to admit that I haven’t – she wraps it all up here with the story of bad boy brother Lord Jack Knight. It’s especially bad when a pleasantly retro romance with a unique setting doesn’t merely go off track, but instead careens wildly between bratty behavior by the previously forthright heroine, an otherwise likable hero turning into a Neanderthal, and some truly excruciatingly sugary scenes featuring the adorable couples (and their adorable children, of course) from the author’s previous books.

It’s a bad thing when a good book derails.

His wicked kiss by gaelen foley