Madeline Hunter, Lord of Sin

Lord of Sin

Madeline Hunter

Ewan McLean does not believe his Uncle Duncan, the Earl of Lyndale, when he insists he is dying. Instead the womanizing Ewan is irritated that he left the warmth of Mrs. Norton to heed the call. Duncan tells him that the next earl must correct the youthful error caused by his going too far. Reluctantly Ewan agrees to nag the next earl to rectify Duncan's mistakes. The next morning Duncan is dead.

Within a couple weeks Duncan's heir and spare die in an avalanche leaving their cousin Ewan as the earl. Ewan plans to use his new wealth to add more erotic art to his collection, but first must handle that indiscretion as he promised his uncle on the man's death bed. He heads to Scotland where he meets Bride Cameron, raising her three younger sisters by himself. He offers her help, but she tells him to return to London as she wants nothing to do with the wastrel. Instead of heeding her warning and his own inner advice to scoot, Ewan is curious and attracted to Bride. She reciprocates his feelings as she begins to fall in love with Lyndale, but refuses his charm as she does not want history to repeat itself.

LORD OF SIN is an engaging historical romance starring two fully developed characters who even as they fall in love are more antagonists than protagonists. The story line is fast-paced filled with intriguing twists as Ewan, though out of the Rake 101 mould, finds he obsessively needs to tame the shrew that demands he go home. The support cast enhances a fine battle of the sexes' tale.

Harriet Klausner