The Study of Seduction (Sinful Suitors #2) by Sabrina Jeffries (audiobook) – Narrated by Beverley A. Crick

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When Edwin Barlow, the Earl of Blakeborough, agrees to help his best friend’s impetuous ward, Lady Clarissa Lindsey, in her time of need, he knows that he’s in for trouble. He’s been hunting for someone to wed, and she’ll just get in the way. Although captivated by the witty, free-spirited beauty, he fears that she’d be all wrong as a wife…if she would even take such a gruff cynic for her husband. Yet he wants nothing more than to have her for his own.

Clarissa has no intention of marrying anyone – not Edwin, whom she’s sure would be an overbearing husband, and certainly not the powerful French diplomat stalking her. But when matters escalate with the diplomat, she chooses Edwin’s gallant offer of a marriage between friends in hopes that it will deter her stalker. She expects nothing more than an amiable union, but their increasingly tempestuous kisses prove more than she bargained for. When her stalker’s vow to expose the lovers’ deepest secrets threatens to destroy their blossoming attraction, will their tenuous bond withstand public ruin, or will Edwin lose all that’s important to him to protect his bride?

Rating: Narration – B+; Content – B+

The Study of Seduction is the second book in Sabrina Jeffries’ Sinful Suitors series, but we have met Edwin Barlow, Lord Blakeborough a few times before, in both the previous book (The Art of Sinning) and in the author’s previous series, The Duke’s Men. In the final book in that series, If the Viscount Falls, Edwin – a decent, if rather staid young man – was jilted by his fiancée, so I hoped that at some point, Ms Jeffries would pen a story for him and give him his HEA, too. And I have to say that the author has done him proud, revealing him to be a deliciously sexy hero and matching him with an equally engaging and strongly drawn heroine.

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