Secrets of Surrender

by Madeline Hunter

Other authorsSimon Prebble (Reader)

CD audiobook, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

Recorded Books (2009), Edition: Unabridged Audiobook, 9 CDs, 9 hrs 55 mins

Description

First he’ll learn her most intimate secrets. Then he’ll arouse her deepest passions. He’s the lover she’s been waiting for: the man who can rescue her from her wicked past–for a price–in Madeline Hunter’s tale of sin, seduction, and irresistible, impossible love. He catches her eye across the dining room–a handsome stranger who stands out among the lewd noblemen and bawdy painted women. But their worlds are about to collide in a way Roselyn Longworth could never have imagined. For before the night is out, she will be auctioned off to the highest bidder…and Kyle Bradwell will lead her from one kind of hell to another. Yet from the moment he wins her, Kyle treats Rose with a gentleness she hasn’t known since a family scandal destroyed her reputation. And when she finally learns what is really driving Kyle, it’s too late. For Rose has fallen for the man who knows her most intimate secrets. Now he has stunned her with a proposal of marriage–the first step in a seduction that will demand nothing less than her complete surrender.…… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member sds6565

Roselyn Longworth gave up her dignity when she became the mistress of her brother's creditor. She was saved and brought back to society's graces by again one of her brother's creditors.I read the book, but was disappointed. I was enticed by the books description and I felt in the beginning, the

story line was developing. Towards the middle of the book, I just wanted it to end.

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LibraryThing member JorgeousJotts

Mostly pretty middle of the road for me. I liked the couple alright. There were some better parts here and there.

Side note, the heroine does something just ridiculously dumb in the first chapter or so, and I think it was supposed to be something quickly dismissed, but it rubbed at me for a long,

long while. lol. She's been sleeping with a man who's been giving her gifts, but he takes her to a houseparty and ends up revealing himself to be a horrible person and refuses to even let her leave. She finally is allowed to go, and her rescuer tells her to gather her things and she just refuses. She doesn't want anything that came from that previous man apparently. The hero even makes the point that whatever the cad gave her she's certainly earned it by this point, and still(!) she walks out of the house with just the clothes on her back! She's leaving even her own clothes and things!? And she is not at all well off where she can just buy all new when she gets home and it's only a minor inconvenience or something. She's fallen on hard times, she's already sold off most of her furniture and things! What the Hell is she doing walking away from a decent chunk of her remaining (probably her nicest, since it was a house party) possessions? She doesn't even have money or an extra item to sell to pay for the stagecoach home or anything!? So she went from being at the total mercy of one man, burned terribly by it, and then straight into being at the total mercy of another, only this one is a complete stranger as well. It's just staggeringly stupid to me. And she wasn't even sneaking out in the dead of night or something (even then definitely pocket the jewelry to sell at least!) so there's nothing but some sort of misplaced pride or impatience or something to stop her from taking every single item. AND not only is she walking away *much* worse off for all her many troubles, she leaves it behind for that horrible man to profit from! Grrr. I'm sure he was just delighted to get all his gifts back, plus whatever else she brought with her. *facepalm* It's never mentioned again, so I'm sure the author just meant it to be a small aside or something, but the absolute reckless stupidity of it galls me. *pulls hair out* lol.

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Subjects

Audiobooks

England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction

Man-woman relationships Fiction

love stories

Language

English

Original language

English

ISBN

1436161916 / 9781436161916

Local notes

From Booklist
Roselyn Longworth’s brother bilked investors of every stripe, from high-born lords to average folk, then fled England for the Continent. Bereft, Roselyn decides to accept her fate and become a lord’s mistress. She is then shocked when, after giving herself to him, he auctions her off at a rowdy dinner party. Kyle Bradwell has business with the host. When he sees what’s going on, he bids an outrageous sum for Roselyn. He knows who she is. As a self-made man, however successful, he could never approach a woman of her status. Having no intention of using her, he delivers Roselyn to her nearest relation. But the damage to her reputation is done. Will Kyle make things right? Neither he nor Roselyn can guess how much they will begin to mean to each other, or how secrets Kyle keeps will threaten their new relationship.