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    After the Kiss: The Notorious Gentlemen

    By Suzanne Enoch

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    A Notorious Gentleman . . .

    Sullivan Waring wants only two things: his rightful inheritance, and revenge against the man who stole it from him. By day, Sullivan is the most respected horse breeder in England; by night, he plunders the ton's most opulent homes to reclaim his late mother's beautiful paintings. His quest is going swimmingly . . . until the night he's discovered by Lady Isabel Chalsey. Clad only in a revealing nightdress, she's an entrancingly different kind of plunder, and how can a thief resist stealing a kiss?

    A Curious Lady . . .

    Surprised by a masked man in her own home, Isabel should be quaking with fear. Instead the sight of the sinfully handsome Sullivan makes her tremble with excitement. Who is this man, and why is he so set on this reckless pursuit? Lady Isabel loves a challenge, and she'll dare anything to uncover Sullivan's secret—but she may instead convince him that she is the greatest prize of all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061983252
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    After the Kiss: The Notorious Gentlemen
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    Suzanne Enoch

    A native and current resident of Southern California, Suzanne Enoch loves movies almost as much as she loves books. When she is not busily working on her next novel, Suzanne likes to contemplate interesting phenomena, like how the three guppies in her aquarium became 161 guppies in five months.

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    • 5/5
      I was hooked on HR for a very long time - this is my top book
    • 5/5
      In brief, here's what I was looking for & what I got:

      - Well written.

      - The characters are mature, fully drawn, and likable. Montraine battles with his ordered life and rational nature; he has to set his need for love on the balance with his need for financial security. Margaret is self-contained, self-controlled, and good. She balances her future livelihood and reputation against her present desires. Neither has an easy choice, but they work through it.

      - Lots of super awesome sex. I mean, creative, intense, and frequent.

      - I love, love, loved the ending.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book! It will be added to my absolute favorites list. Margaret and Michael are two tremendously likable characters with a great relationship. The relationship builds slowly, like most real relationships. His slow seduction of her is extremely erotic. I loved the inner turmoil that they both go through. I was riveted to the book from beginning to end.
    • 5/5
      It's very rare that I give out five stars to a book, but this one definitely made it to the five star pile for me. It was that good. I've heard many times before that romance novels are boring because they are predictable. Let's face it: there's nothing new under the sun. But for me, it's not really the plot devices that make the story...it's how the plot devices are used. In other words it's not necessarily the journey, but how you make the journey, that makes it interesting. Yeah, I've read dozens of books with this same basic plot before. BUT...I haven't read it as it happens to THESE characters. How will THESE characters react? How will THEY solve the problems? How will THEY fall in love? Give me a book that makes me interested in those questions, and I'm sold. From the very beginning, I cared about these characters. My heart went out to Margaret, a poor widow, from the very first paragraphs of the Prologue. I felt a bit of kinship with her in chapter one when she's guiltily indulging in her one great passion: reading. And she's doing it by reading an erotic book, fantasizing about one of the "models". How many of us have done the same with an erotic book and it's cover model? Margaret is a kindred spirit in a way, and I wanted her to find the man who would bring to her all the carnal delights she's read about in "The Journals of Agustin X".And sure enough, just as we thought she would, she finds him in the form of Michael, an Earl who is quickly losing money, and needs a rich wife to inject some capital into his bank account. Again, it's not a new plot point, but after reading so many books where the hero is wealthy beyond belief, to read one where he's not was refreshing.You see where the conflict is right away: Michael can't marry a poor widow, and Margaret's personality just can't allow her to be someone's mistress. I won't describe the plot any farther than that, because it's not really necessary. You know how it might unfold, but how will it unfold for these characters? This book compels you to keep turning the pages to find out.My final point about this book is the one reason that I think I loved it so much: It was one of the most erotic books I've read in a long time. And the best part about that was that it's erotic without being crude. Nowadays, some authors feel that being more and more crude is the only way to keep their readers interested. They could take lessons from Ranney, because, she packed more eroticism into the moments before Michael and Margaret kissed than many authors put into an entire love scene. That, my friends, is good writing, and that is why, for me, this book deserves five stars.