Name: Angela Guilherme's review of The Devil's Thief by Samantha Kane
Item: The Devil's Thief
Rating: 4
Author: Angela Guilherme

Samantha Kane

In Samantha Kane's wicked tale of forbidden passion, a desperate woman must resort to burglary-but the beautiful thief ends up stealing the heart of a devil.The daughter of a reformed jewel thief, Julianna Harte knows how to get past a lock. And she needs that knowledge now to save a foundling home in dire financial straits. In a misguided attempt to play the hero, she slips through the window of a wealthy rake to steal an invaluable pearl. But when the very naked-and very awake-occupant of the moonlit bedroom ambushes her with a scandalous bargain, Julianna doesn't know if it's the lure of the pearl or the charms of its owner that make his terms so tempting.Planning to outmaneuver the alluring little cat burglar with an offer she can't refuse, Alasdair Sharpe loses himself in the delights of an unexpected pleasure. But when he awakes the next morning to find his family heirloom gone, fury quickly replaces satisfaction. Of course, Alasdair is more than willing to once again use seduction-this time to reclaim his stolen pearl-and possibly to find the key to Julianna's heart.

The Saint's Devils

The Devil's Thief

Carrie

In Samantha Kane’s sensual tale of wicked passion, a desperate woman must resort to burglary—but the beautiful thief ends up stealing the heart of a rogue. The daughter of a reformed jewel thief, Julianna Harte knows a thing or two about stealth. When the foundling home she provides for finds itself in dire financial straits, Julianna is forced to do the unthinkable. In a bit of misguided Robin Hood derring-do, she slips through the window of a wealthy rake to search for a treasure she knows is there: an invaluable pearl. But when the towering and very naked occupant of the moonlit bedroom ambushes her with a bargain—a night in his bed in exchange for the pearl—Julianna doesn’t know if it’s masculine heat or sheer desperation that makes his terms so tempting. Alasdair Sharpe had no intention of keeping his end of the bargain. Planning to offer his little cat burglar carte blanche instead, he promptly loses himself in the delights of unexpected pleasure. But when he awakes the next morning to find his family heirloom gone, fury quickly replaces sensual languor. Of course, Alasdair is more than willing to use seduction to reclaim his stolen pearl—and find the key to Julianna’s heart. Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: About Last Night, Blaze of Winter, and Lana’s Lawman.

Angela Guilherme

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

The Devil's Thief is the first in a series focused in three friends, known as the Saint's Devils. The name comes from the lider of the group, Sir Hilary St. John and the other devils are Roger Templeton and Alasdair Sharp. This story is focused on the latter.

It all starts when Julianna Harte, desperate because she doesn't have the money necessary to pay the rent of the home for abandoned children she has founded, decides to steal the famous Stewart Pearl, a valuable family jewel, by invading Alasdair's house at night. But Alasdair perceives a presence in his room, and when he discovers that the thief is really a woman, he makes her a proposition: if she agrees to spend the night with him in his bed, she can have the pearl. Julianna hesitates because she is a virgin, but partly for desperation and partly because she is very attracted to Alasdair, she accepts. Of course Alasdair never intended to keep his part of the deal, but he wakes up with no thief and no pearl...

Alasdair turns to the help of his best friends, Hil and Roger to discover the identity of the thief, that he knows only as Juliet, the obviously fake name the woman has given him (a detail I found to be absolutely delicious because it originated numerous lines of Romeo and Juliet to be exchanged between them), and recover the pearl.

In the meantime, Julianna looks for a fence to whom she can sell the pearl to, but being such a famous piece, only those of doubtful reputation will be interested. And it's at one of those places that she meets Wiley, a young man who recognizes her because he has two children at her home, and who ends up helping and protecting her in her task.

But lo it that, at an event organized by Hilary, Alasdair ends up recognizing his Juliet as the shy daughter of his next door neighbour. And he realizes the attraction he felt that night is still strong so he doesn't hesitate to use all his seduction techniques to convince Julianna to return the pearl to him.

Obviously the atraction turns into love to both of them, which means that Julianna is going to try to recover and return the pearl at any cost, putting herself in danger in the process. And Alasdair will have to decide which jewel is more precious to him...

The characters are well developed, not only the main ones, but also the secondary characters which are very amusing and pertinent to the story, they're not there only to make up the numbers. I especially liked Wiley, a character I think has many potential and hope to see it developed in the next books of the series.

However, there were a few things I had problems with. First of all, Alasdair's jealousies irritated me to no end. Two days after taking Julianna's virginity, he believed she had another lover (as she put it herself, how did she had the time to find a lover?). And the other thing that annoyed me was Julianna's stuberness not to ask for help and her naivety in thinking she could steal the pearl not once, but twice (I mean she was discovered the first time she tried it, right?).

Generally, I really liked this story, so much so, that I had to continue reading the next books in the series. I can hardly wait to meet the ladies that are going to turn around the heads and the lives of Hilary and Roger.

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