I HAVE BEEN A FAN OF ELIZABETH HOYT'S BOOKS AND SPECIFICALLY HER WRITING STYLE FOR A LONG TIME. HER LATEST BOOK SCANDALOUS DESIRES IS THE 3RD BOOK IN THE MAIDEN LANE SERIES AND A PERFECT ADDITION TO THIS COLLECTION. I LOVED THIS STORY ABOUT A BIG, TOUGH, PUT THE FEAR IN EVERYONE PIRATE WHO IS KNOCKED OFF KILTER BY THIS WOMAN. PLUS I LOVE A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO ACCESSORIZE AND THIS SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING PIRATES KNOW HOW TO DO!WHEN I WENT TO HER WEBSITE I FOUND A BEVY OF INFORMATION TO SHARE. ELIZABETH HOYT is the "New York Times", "USA Today", and" Publishers Weekly" bestselling author of historical romance, including reader favorite, "The Raven Prince". Shelives in central Illinois with her family and three dogs. She researches extensively to make her work realistic and historically faithful. Author of 11 novels, all of Elizabeth's books are set in eighteenth-century England-the epoch of King George-so it is customary for her to read books on history, costume, warfare, social mannerisms, and cooking, and to frequent museums to study portraits of the Georgian aristocracy.Elizabeth's books have finaled four times in Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award contest, have won two Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards, and were nominated for a third. All of her books have received Top Pick reviews from "Romantic Times BookReviews" magazine. Both "Wicked Intentions" and "Notorious Pleasures" received starred reviews from "Publishers Weekly". Four of her books were voted into All About Romance's (AAR's) Top 100 Romances of All Time list and six were Desert Isle Keepers at AAR. Elizabeth's books have been translated into twelve languages. Elizabeth researches extensively for her historical romances, both by reading books on topics such as: history, costume, warfare, social mannerisms, and cooking, and frequenting museums whenever she can to study portraits and the little dogs that aristocratic Georgian ladies seem to always be holding. When desperate she often consults Mr. Hoyt, who is an archaeologist and Historical Research Wizard."I am proud to announce that GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING" is giving away two copies of this book (REVIEW BELOW). To be eligible to win please leave a COMMENT and what I am asking today is "COULD YOU LOVE A PIRATE - THE ORIGINAL BAD BOYS?" Come back on Sunday - November 20th to see if you have won. Please remember if you do not come back, you won't know if you won because I am going to need your address. As always I wish you HAPPY READING, encourage you to CELEBRATE YOUR LITTLE VICTORIES, and COME BACK to see what book I am reviewing and offering up for a giveaway. Don't forget to cast your positive votes for me on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Your vote matters!"SCANDALOUS DESIRES" by ELIZABETH HOYTBook #3 in the Maiden Lane Series 10/11 - Grand Central Publishing - Mass Market Paperback, 400 pagesCan love ever be considered an excess you do not need?Silence Hollingbrook had made a pact with the devil and she knows she is going to regret it. Now this particular devil happens to be in an exquisite package known as "Charming" Mickey O'Connor, but the devil he most certainly is. Silence needs protection Mickey's daughter, Mary Darling and the only way to secure that is by moving into his palace. Yes, Silence is going to enter the pirate's den of inequity but only to keep the baby safe. She will do anything; even sell her soul to Mickey, again.Mickey has no idea why he feels this pull toward Silence but he must have her and whatever means he must use to secure that including his daughter is on the table. He is a pirate, thief, and marauder who loves the taste of victory and will keep what he values safe from those that want to take it away. The enemy is nipping at Mickey's heels and someone is tipping them off to his every move and especially the areas of personal vulnerability. Mickey has no idea why someone working for him would do this but when discovers who it is misery and pain will rain down upon them. Mickey has known poverty, despair, and complete isolation and nothing will ever take him back to where he came from. The life he has built albeit not legal is fulfilling and what he does not own, well he can just steal from someone else.Silence has way of winning over Mickey's staff, controlling everyone's behavior including his dog. The more time she spends in Mickey's house, the more dangerous he becomes to her as Silence is finding it hard to resist the descent man she sees hiding inside Mickey. He pursues her as if a love struck boy and wants her to obey him but will do anything she asks just for her to notice him. When Silence turns her anger into affection Mickey becomes more than infatuated with her, he is obsessed with her loving him.Despite the danger surrounding them, Mickey and Silence will fight friend and foe to prove they are destined to be together.Elizabeth Hoyt knows how to deliver quality, enchanting historical romance with every book. She sets the scenario for two people to battle it out and together winning the war of love.
