FALLEN On the eve of her profession as a nun, Lady Graeye Charwyck is called home to Medland by the father who disavowed her years earlier for the “devil’s mark” she bears. Desperate to escape the convent, she agrees to wed a man she detests to provide an heir for her family’s holdings. But when the king declares the Charwyck lands forfeit and awards them to their enemy, Graeye once more finds herself discarded. Grieved by her father’s plans to return her to the convent, she yields to impulse and casts aside her virtue, only to discover that the knight with whom she sinned is the new lord of Medland. RELENTLESS Baron Gilbert Balmaine is a man nearly eaten through with desire to see the end of the Charwyck line for all the ills the family has visited upon his own. With the heir dead, the only remaining survivor too aged to beget another, and their lands forfeited for the atrocities committed against the Balmaines, light lies ahead-until Gilbert learns there is a daughter. And his world darkens further when he realizes she is the one who, on a starry night, tempted him past temptation. Certain she intended to trap him into marriage, he vows he will not rest until she is back within the walls of her abbey. Now if only he can forget her… If only that night did not have such far-reaching consequences…
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 1/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
Lady of Eve by Tamera Leigh is the rewritten \"clean read\" of her original work titled Virgin Bride. Set in medieval times, the plot contains much villainy and intrigue, the likes of which is appalling and yet appealing to see how it all plays out. While the novel is considered a \"clean read\", there is a scene early on that is somewhat steamy. Fortunately, the nature of that relationship has the brakes thrown on it in such a way that the sexuality is more chaste and the descriptive details don\'t make the reader as uncomfortable--I\'m glad to have been reading the \"clean read\"! Yet I will say, that in reading the lengths a young woman would go to in order to avoid being forced into a situation she did not desire makes me thankful to be living in the times I am! There is a religious overtone to the novel based on Catholicism. I think we can easily romanticize the medieval era, but when you read a novel like this, one can see that there was nothing romantic about it per se. The novel deals with the old belief that those born with birthmarks had the \"kiss of the devil\"; the protagonist of the novel had a large one that was visible on her face in her hairline. It\'s presence played a large part in the plot line. The book was a good read, one I don\'t regret having spent time reading.
Violence: It may be a 1 to some, but for me, it was more steamy than a 1.