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What a Woman Needs

by Caroline Linden

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A beautiful widow and a seductive rake play a dangerous game of desire in this Regency romance by the USA Today bestselling author.
Charlotte Griffolino knows a rake when she sees one, and the man her niece longs to marry most definitely qualifies. Stuart Drake is handsome, charmingā??and penniless. It is clear to Charlotte that he is only interested in neice's inheritance. Having fallen prey to fortune hunters in the past, Charlotte is willing to do anything to stop Stuart . . . even if it requires seducing him . . .
With a Viscount title in his future, Stuart expects it should be easy to marry an heiressā??and winning the approval of her guardian should pose no trouble. But the young lady's aunt Charlotte is far from the elderly matron he imagined. As his captivating opponent threatens to ruin his plan and his name, he is determined to fight fire with passionate fire
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An intriguing premise that reminded me of an old television commercial for chocolates. Young, handsome, impoverished gentleman decides to propose to a charming, innocent, rich maiden. Unfortunately he needs the approval of the maiden's fearsome guardian -- who turns out to be a stunningly beautiful lady with a scandalous past. He quickly loses interest in the maiden (and she in him) and turns his attention to the alluring guardian.

The tale unfolds at a cracking pace, with burglaries, misunderstandings, arguments and even a cross-country chase.

Many of the characters in the book seem to have enigmatic problems with their families. A few hints about these problems are dropped here and there, but explained in detail only at the end of the book. Loose ends are tied off and mysteries revealed, but the denouement has a hurried, breathless quality about it, with too much over-the-top information crammed into a limited space.

The book should have ended with the climactic rescue of the innocent maiden and the capture of a dastardly Italian, but drags on for far too many anti-climactic pages of explanatory dialogue.
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  skirret | Jan 2, 2015 |
Lady Wombat says:

Another I simply decided wasn't worth the effort to finish -- too stupid for words.
  Wombat | Sep 21, 2010 |
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Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:

A beautiful widow and a seductive rake play a dangerous game of desire in this Regency romance by the USA Today bestselling author.
Charlotte Griffolino knows a rake when she sees one, and the man her niece longs to marry most definitely qualifies. Stuart Drake is handsome, charmingā??and penniless. It is clear to Charlotte that he is only interested in neice's inheritance. Having fallen prey to fortune hunters in the past, Charlotte is willing to do anything to stop Stuart . . . even if it requires seducing him . . .
With a Viscount title in his future, Stuart expects it should be easy to marry an heiressā??and winning the approval of her guardian should pose no trouble. But the young lady's aunt Charlotte is far from the elderly matron he imagined. As his captivating opponent threatens to ruin his plan and his name, he is determined to fight fire with passionate fire

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