Book Description
In a place where lords rule polite society and ruthless men lead the underbelly, women are often left on the fringe. Only the most daring among them break free of their restrictions. The Sinful Brides series follows the sizzling romances of the men who run one of the most notorious gaming hells in 1820s London—and the women who scandalously fall in love with them.
London, 1821—Lord Robert Dennington, the Marquess of Westfield, has long reveled
in the freedom afforded him as the ducal heir. He knows he must someday do right by the Somerset line, but he’s in no hurry to give up his carefree existence.
Helena Banbury is a bookkeeper in a gentleman’s gambling club, adept at analyzing numbers and accounts but helpless for lack of influence. She’s never belonged among the nobility on the gaming hell floors, but neither does she feel completely herself among the men who run the Hell and Sin Club, despite the fact that they are family. The once-illiterate girl from the streets wants more than the gilded walls her protective cage can offer.
When Robert mistakenly enters her chambers one night, Helena is forced out of her predictable life and thrust into the glittering world of Society. Will the charms of the marquess prove more perilous than any danger she ever knew on the streets?
My Summary
This is the first book of Christi Caldwell's Sinful Brides Series, and I do believe it was the first time I have read a book by this author. I thoroughly enjoyed this story. I adored that Helena was the math genius in the family business. Especially being so in this era. I cannot fathom having existed in a time period where women were mere property at most. But somehow Helen was so much more to her "brothers" but also to Robert. I felt so many different emotions as I read this book, so often my heart went out to Robert and Helen. I hope in the books to come, I will get to see more of the life of some of the other characters I met throughout the pages!
Notable Quotes
"Those tears offered healing and peace."
"You think you'll never find love because, well, frankly you're certain your heart isn't capable of withstanding that kind of pain again."
“I did not live in these dangerous streets, and I’ve certainly not known the pain you have. But money and status does not make a person immune to emotion or life.”
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