Turning away from her instrument, Patience worked the tiny buttons of her dressing gown as she crossed to the hearth. But as she rounded the big chair, she drew to a sudden halt.
Sitting on a table beside the freshly fed fire sat a tea tray laden with a small china teapot and teacup. A demure little sugar bowl and pitcher of cream sat beside a cut glass dish of marmalade and butter.
And next to a tea plate topped with two golden scones, was a steepled slip of paper. Unmoving, Patience stared at the tray while a succession of emotions tumbled through her—first happiness, but then a quick and growing discomfort.
Why had he done such a thing? It was completely unnecessary. She was perfectly capable of taking care of such things herself. She ought to be pleased. Drawing closer to the table, she saw that a delicate P , scripted exactly as the one in the note, had been carved into the top of the butter. Tipping her head back to prevent her tears from falling, she forced a slow, deep breath into her lungs.
When she exhaled, her stomach growled. She pressed her hand over the rumbling spot and blinked to clear her eyes. Whatever was the matter with her? She returned her gaze to the table. Everything looked delicious and she was hungry. Picking up her napkin, she opened it carefully onto her lap.
Then, clasping her hands, she leaned forward and let her eye wander again over the little tray. Tell me the Benchleys have a secret I can exploit—preferably a deep, dark one. Mickey Wilkes grinned. Matthew frowned. He tossed down his toast and leaned his elbows on his desk. Matthew nodded. It was strange. While there might, at any given time, be a change or two in the servant roster of a noble house, most families cultivated their staff.
Many even employed generations of servants from the same families. Matthew pushed a bowl of stewed fruit across his desk for Mickey, and then leaned back in his chair and sipped his coffee. So why had Benchley done it? A shockingly graphic erotic book that desperately needed more pages of romance By Misuzmama Valdez is finally back with the sequel to her sexually explicit historical romance book Passion.
And as anyone whose read the prequel knows this author can really push the envelope when it comes to love scenes in mainstream romance, some may call it erotic romance, some erotica and some even porn. Doesn't matter which label you use because if that is all there were to the story then it would have been easily forgotten. But Valdez is a good writer, she knows her characters, knows how to bring out emotions and best of all knows how to make a connection with the reader.
I admit that I was shocked by the content of Passion but it opened up my mind to other possibilities in the historical romance genre and I was extremely excited when this sequel came out.
Patience is about Matthew struggling with his recently revealed illegitimacy and his new found love, Patience, who equally struggles to define the person she really is. Its dark, intense and contains a potentially wicked revenge plot. But unfortunately I don't think Patience is nearly as good as its predecessor. In a nut shell I felt that their emotional love story was sacrificed for the sex shock factor.
My major problem with Patience is the love scenes -you can't get away from them. Well, you know that there won't be vanilla sex here. But BDSM? OK, I can open my mind up to some domination and submission. And let me tell you -You think Passion was smoking? Honey, you ain't seen nothing yet! It was shocking, titilating, and frankly educational do NOT read this book in public! Seriously this a new flavor to anyone not familiar with submissive sex. BUT sadly there was waaay tooo much of it!!!
Yes I'm complaining about too many love scenes in a romance?!! Really I didn't want to read another line about a red, purple veined thing or waterfalls between someones legs. To be honest I don't get the whole submission thing BUT to be fair, I'm going to assume that all that stuff, including the cringe-worthy crying and spanking parts OMG!! I just wish that some of the romance was more obvious to the average reader.
Its a case of too much information about one thing sex life and not enough of the other romantic relationship. This is not to say that whatever pages that were left over for romance weren't good, they were excellent.
But they were just not long enough! Either cut out a bunch of the racy love scenes or add another 50 pages. Because by the end of the book I couldn't answer a critical question: Are Matthew and Patience really in love? Or did they just find their perfect bed partner? Yes there was a beautiful ending but I needed more remember the scene in in Passion when Mark tells Passion he will write her letters?
I don't mind sex early in a book provided that eventually the author spends time revealing the characters true feelings not just their body parts. There were points in the book that gave me hope but sadly not enough.
Anyway, I'm picking up speed and I look forward to having news for you soon. I hope you will check back next month, when I will post another update. All my love and thanks, Lisa] guess we will see [February, Dearest Readers, I had expected to have a release date for you by now.
All my love and thanks, Lisa] guess we will see View 1 comment. Oct 22, R marked it as to-read Shelves: genre-historical-romance. Okay, excerpt, WTF?
Having sex with random strangers you find naked is never a good idea. You'd think that as a vicar's daughter, Primrose would be aware of this, but apparently not. Feb 16, Velvetp. I am so sick and tired of waiting! Valdez please relieve me of this pain! Jun 16, Lena marked it as to-read Shelves: waiting-release. That's what.. Hope all is well with Ms. Valdez : Wow Valdez Oct 01, Edith rated it did not like it. Should this book ever be released, I'll of course change my rating accordingly.
So this is the book that will never come. But they were well written for such steamy content with interesting characters and some promising storylines. I had high hopes for the third book Primrose, but alas Since by now 11 years! I guess it happens, some writers don't feel like it anymore, some writers might get preoccupied with other things in their lives, some writers might succumb to terminal writer's block. It's tragic, but what can you do.
Too bad that it happened before Primrose was out, I think I'd have enjoyed it. Dec 09, Barbara marked it as to-read. No sign The excerpt on Lisa Valdez website is very promising Primrose Eleanora Dare froze in her footsteps, her hat slipping from her fingers with barely a sound. The man wasn't more than fifteen paces away from her. He stood in three-quarter profile.
A pool of mirror-like water lapped at his hips. His face, ruggedly handsome, was tipped up to one of the slim fingers of sunlight that reached through the trees. His eyes we No sign His eyes were closed. More splashes of light dappled his wet skin, highlighting the sculpted curve of his shoulder and the smooth plane of his belly.
Prim drew a halting breath. It was her dream brought to life-her own private fantasy, conjured and imagined every single time she made the walk from her home to the little lake behind. Only she wasn't at home, and this wasn't a dream. Jan 19, Linda marked it as to-read. Estamos desesperadas y aun no hay fecha; que lenta agonia estamos sufriendo las que ya tuvimos el provilegio de leer las 2 primeras partes, esperemos que pronto tengamos ya una fecha de piblicasion para Primrose.
Aug 02, Zainab marked it as to-read. Miss Valdez it's February and no release date yet. This isn't fair. With all the anticipation, I fear it'll be very anti climactic.
We deserve better than more than 5 years wait and empty promises Miss Valdez it's February and no release date yet. We deserve better than more than 5 years wait and empty promises Jun 24, Sinead6uk marked it as to-read. Not sure why I keep checking this to see if there is any news?
Don't think I even want to read it anymore as I can't really remember the others as it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long ago. Must just give it up!! Domenik rated it it was ok Mar 30, Moyinoluwa Ologun rated it did not like it Aug 06, Michelle Millard rated it really liked it Oct 09, Readers also enjoyed.
About Lisa Valdez. Lisa Valdez. And to make matters ever so much worse, his real father was a gardener! And the whole thing came to light in a most shocking and unseemly way. You remember from my last letter that Mr. The woman had in her possession some letters that revealed the truth of Mr. Yes, she wrote the letters that damned her bastard son and herself! One was actually printed, my dear, and spread all over London.
In it, the Countess gloated, and spoke of how it pleased her to see her little bastard in the Hawkmore linens. She even spoke of the possibility of him inheriting the earldom one day! Can you imagine? Anyway, the whole blackmail scheme was revealed in the society pages of the Times.
Though no names were mentioned, everyone knows exactly who was being referred to. Oh, and it turns out that the revelation of the truth was very fortunate for Mr. A Mrs. Passion Elizabeth Reddington have you ever heard such an outrageous name? Apparently he is head-over-heels for her, and is to marry her within the next fortnight.
But as for the unfortunate Mr. And her father, Lord Benchley, is in an absolute fury over the whole thing. He believes Mr.
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