I loved it, Hugh was a great guy and that he killed Ethan's enemy just made him the number one! ( )

If You Desire

Author: Kresley Cole

Series Connection: MacCarrick Brothers Book 2

ISBN: 978-1416503606



5 Hearts



Description:

How much temptation can a Highlander resist?



He tried to run. . .

In his youth, Hugh MacCarrick foolishly fell in love with a beautiful English lass who delighted in teasing him with her flirtatious ways. Yet he knew he could never marry her because he was a second son with no prospects, shadowed by an accursed family legacy. To avoid temptation, Hugh left home and trained as an assassin.



She tried to forget him . . .

Jane Weyland was devastated when the Highlander she believed would marry her abandoned her instead. Years later, when Hugh MacCarrick is summoned to protect her from her father's enemies, her heartache has turned to fury—but her desire for him has not waned.



Will passion overwhelm them?

In hiding, Jane torments Hugh with seductive play. He struggles to resist her because of deadly secrets that could endanger her further. But Hugh is no longer a gentle young man—and toying with the fever-pitched desires of a hardened warrior will either get Jane burned— or enflame a love that never died. ( )

Second in Cole’s MacCarrick Brothers series, once again I was blown away by the author’s grasp on what women want in their romance novels- especially as far what the hero gives the heroine in the sack!

Hugh has loved Jane since he got to know her as young girl while working for her father. A little later , on the brink of womanhood, she offers herself to him. As much as Hugh longs to have her, he doesn’t take her. Rather, he walks away and takes a job ensuring he will never be tempted to keep her- ever. He signs on as an assassin for a secret government agency directed by her father, certain that if she ever found out what he’s done, she’ll never want him.

But then he receives a missive from her father stating that Jane is in grave danger. He kills himself getting back to her, leaving his brother Courtland (If You Dare), wounded, but alive. And Jane certainly is in danger- a man who once worked aside Hugh wants revenge for all Jane’s father put him through and if he harms Hugh in the process? All the better.

Jane of course is excited to see the man she’s never forgotten, and the man whom all other men in her life never measure up to, but she’s still angry with him for leaving her so heart broken without even a goodbye between them.

Hugh wants to see Jane protected and then get the hell out, for he truly believes the curse his family labors under is active and harmful to any woman he might fall for, but then Jane’s father comes up with a plan to marry them off so the hardened Scot can get her out of Dodge. Hugh sees no other alternative and agrees. Will he be able to protect her AND keep his distance- or will the love that never left his heart be the ultimate deciding factor in both their lives.

LOVED this one as much as the first, although I do find it difficult to get through the two h/h’s fighting their attraction til they get together. Cole does the hottest sex scenes I’ve read in a long time and that more than makes up for the contrived plot devices to keep them apart.

Still, the whole unfulfilled forever love thing is very irresistible- and Hugh was so deliciously jealous in love with her, and she just the same, that I can’t help but give If You Desire a 4.5 out of 5!

Good stuff people, good stuff! ( )

Book 2 in the series. Like book 1, i'd really give it a 3.5. Like the first book, I also found I was less than enthralled with the heroine. The hero was a good alpha male but almost ridiculously obsessed with the heroine. The story itself was pretty good and the occupational background of the men in this series is different than other romance reads. A decent read and entertaining but not the best of the best. She does write very good intimate scenes tho! :-) ( )

This series is sooooooo good. After many historical romances you sort of get to the point where the romance scene don't "get to you" so much anymore...well...the chemistry between Hugh and Jane is so intense and the scenes between them are positively erotic. Because Hugh and Jane have known each other since childhood the unrequited passion between them is sizzling. This second book in the MacCarrick Brothers series is even better than the first. I'm buying the third one, If You Deceive tomorrow! ( )