Name: Angela Guilherme's review of Devil in My Arms by Samantha Kane
Item: Devil in My Arms
Rating: 4
Author: Angela Guilherme

Samantha Kane

One by one, the Saint’s Devils—Samantha Kane’s wicked, wonderful Regency heroes—continue to enchant the women who capture their rakish hearts. Even though she is starving and destitute, Eleanor Enderby’s quiet beauty strikes Sir Hilary St. John speechless. He expects the woman he’s searching for to be skittish and plain. Instead he finds the picture of bravery—and willfulness—in his quarry. She gives away little, but Hil can see something is terribly amiss. And though he cannot say exactly why, he is determined not to let her come to more harm than whatever it is she has already survived. Six months later, Eleanor believes she has finally found safety from the tyrant she risked her life to escape. Thought to be dead by society, Eleanor is ready to be reborn as someone new—someone whose life will never again be tied to the fate of one man. But her smoldering savior seems unwilling to leave her unprotected for an instant. Despite the threats he thinks he sees coming, the real dangers Eleanor faces in Hil’s arms are unmistakable: temptation, seduction, and maybe even love. Praise for Devil in My Arms “Samantha Kane’s delightful characters and sizzling sexual tension always make for a great read.”—Sabrina Jeffries, New York Times bestselling author of ’Twas the Night After Christmas “Devil in My Arms is a devilishly hot read. Intrigue, high stakes, banter, scandal, and sizzling chemistry . . . it kept me guessing right to the end.”—Ashlyn Macnamara, author of A Most Devilish Rogue “A dramatic tale . . . [There’s] heat and chemistry between our hero and heroine, with both of them finding that keeping their hearts unengaged was more of a struggle than they’d anticipated. . . . Eleanor never once lost her determination or spirit, and it was that strength that really appealed to me from the start.”—The Romanceaholic “Devil in My Arms is an enjoyable story. I adore Eleanor and Hil together. Their verbal sparring and dancing is as sexy as their mutual attraction.”—That’s What I’m Talking About “Beautiful story! I enjoyed it quite a lot. The characters are charming and very well described; the story, which sometimes has a bit of an intricate plot, is never confused or tedious.”—Il Profumo delle Pergamene “With a touch of steam to liven up the quiet moments with Hil and Eleanor, the pages just flew past.”—I Am, Indeed “Once again Samantha Kane’s brilliance shines. Each and every one of the books in the Saint’s Devils series is a winner and each one so delectably different.”—Book Obsessed Chicks Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from other Loveswept titles.

Devil in My Arms

Carrie

Angela Guilherme

*I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*

The third book of the series brings us finally the story of Sir Hilary St. John, a kind of Sherlock Holmes, who is the most misterious of the Devils and also their lider. Misterious because not even his closest friends, Alasdair and Roger, know much about his past and his origins. In the previous books it was plain that he has a misterious past and powerful connections, but only now do we get to see how far his connections spread and why.

The story begins with Harry's sister arrival at hers and Roger's place. Similarly to her sister, Eleanor Enderby has also not had a happy marriage and, having escaped his husband at last, disguised as a boy, and her sister is her last hope. Her plan is a simple one, even though perhaps maybe too hopeful... Eleanor intends to keep hidden until her husband, a poweful man in the region and desperate to produce an heir (that Eleanor cannot bear), declares her dead and remarries. Only then can Eleanor live a semi-normal life, under a false identity. 

Her plan works faster than expected for, not only did her husband declared her dead only a few months after her disappearing, he also recognized a body as being hers. Since he has remarried and his new wife is pregnant, Eleanor assumes the identity of a supposed widow cousin of Harry and is introduced into London society.

Eleanor is a very intelligent woman whose spirit has not been broken even after all she's been through at the hands of her husband, and she is the only woman who is capable of intelectually challenge Hill which, of course, makes her extremely attractive at his eyes. The scenes when they both quote Shakespeare by heart are fantastic! But Eleanor is also not indifferent to the amateur detective and they both give in to the desire they feel for each other. After all, what do they have to lose? To all effects, Eleanor is a widow, so the scandal cannot be that grand...

But the past always catches up with us and when Eleanor's husband gets back in the scene, all the characters' lives are irrevocably altered. I don't want to give too much away, so I'll only mention there is a trial, a life on the line, Hil's past is revealed, Roger reveals himself to be an excellent attorney, Willey proves his value once more, this time as a detective, and the value of friendship is proven yet again.

Of all the Devils, Hil is the one who changes the most for love. Always reserved (possibly because of living with a secret past) and the first to consider appearances and the consequences in the previous books, Hil reveals himself a passionate man, desperate and incapable of considering what other people will think... Luckly his friends are there to help!

I am going to miss these characters and I would love it if the author continued the series. Wiley could have his book. Or Alasdair's cousin, the Count of Throckton. Or his sister, Lady Anne, because if there ever was a woman deserving of being a Devil, it was her. Or even Roger's collegue, Edward Little, several times refered as having also been one of the Devils in their school days...

A series that really surprised me in a positive way and that yielded me a few hours of delighting and compulsive reading.

I would just like to refer that the cover, unlike the previous ones, doesn't represent the main couple, since Hil has red hair (or auburn according to himself) and Eleanor should have short hair, since she maintained the cut throughout the story...

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