Sabrina Jeffries, One Night With a Prince

One Night With a Prince

Sabrina Jeffries

Pocket, Jul 2005, $6.99, 384 pp.

ISBN: 0743477723

In 1815 Widow Marchioness Lady Christabel needs to destroy letters that if released would probably lead to her father's execution and a major scandal involving the Prince Regent, and definitely devastate her life. To gain access to the letters means behaving scandalously by pretending to be the mistress of the owner of the Blue Swan Men's Club Gavin Byrne, who must hate her as she almost shot him last year when he visited to collect her husband's debt to him.

Although he wants no part of this scheme, Gavin admires the spirited Christabel. Still he would have said no except that his fellow members of the Royal Brotherhood of B#stards, his half-brothers Draker (see TO PLEASURE A PRINCE) and Iversley (see IN THE PRINCE'S BED) convince him otherwise. He detests his biological father the Regent, who rejected him and his mother, but agrees to assist her because he plans to use the letters to expose the Prince. As Christabel and Gavin forge a working partnership though with differing goals, the danger and their attraction mount.

The third Royal Brotherhood Regency romance, like its two predecessors, is a terrific tale that the audience will cherish due to the strong lead couple and fine supporting cast. The story line centers on the teaming of Christabel and Gavin, but with each having a different agenda on how to use the letters once obtained. Neither expects failure as it seems simple enough, but love and an adversary make the purloining quite dangerous to the pair but fascinating to the audience. Sabrina Jeffries' royal flush series contain three fabulous historical novels.

Harriet Klausner