{"id":2840,"date":"2013-02-06T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2013-02-05T08:06:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T12:06:34","slug":"five-stars-for-treacherous-temptations-by-victoria-vane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2840","title":{"rendered":"Five Stars for TREACHEROUS TEMPTATIONS by Victoria Vane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review: TREACHEROUS TEMPTATIONS<\/p>\n<p>***** 5 Stars<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Victoria Vane has hit the ball out of the park for me. Her latest Georgian gem, TREACHEROUS TEMPTATIONS lays her usual beautiful historical detail over a wonderful story which brings the reader inexorably back into the past. Traveling from Venice to London to the English countryside,\u00c2\u00a0 the reader embarks on an adventure of lust, true love, and redemption. The evils of the world are overcome, after more than one arduous leap of faith from both young lovers. As\u00c2\u00a0 Molly fights to keep her life her own, avoiding the nasty political marriage her guardian has in store for her, she discovers that she has the strength to take her destiny into her own hands. True love triumphs in the end, but only after Molly stands up for herself.\u00c2\u00a0 I truly recommend this book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TreacherousTemptation-200X3001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2851 lazyload\" alt=\"TreacherousTemptation 200X300(1)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TreacherousTemptation-200X3001.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2851\" alt=\"TreacherousTemptation 200X300(1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TreacherousTemptation-200X3001.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Treacherous-Temptations-ebook\/dp\/B00B3L9A10\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1359818264&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=treacherous+temptations\">Treacherous Temptations by Victoria Vane<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A reluctant heiress resigned to her fate\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Mary Elizabeth Edwardes has one of the largest fortune\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in England, but has no desire to leave her quiet country existence\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and even less to acquire a husband she cannot choose for herself. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A dissolute nobleman bent on retribution\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Trapped in a duplicitous existence since scandal destroyed his fortune and family name, Lord Hadley Blanchard has spent the better part of a decade posing as a disaffected exile while spying and seducing in the service of the English Crown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A dangerous game of seduction, and intrigue\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 When summoned from abroad by a former lover, Lord Hadley perceives an opportunity for vengeance at last. By employing the full measure of his seductive charm, he woos the ward of the man who destroyed his life, little knowing that winning Mary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fortune will mean risking his own treacherous heart.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review: TREACHEROUS TEMPTATIONS ***** 5 Stars Once again, Victoria Vane has hit the ball out of the park for me. Her latest Georgian gem, TREACHEROUS TEMPTATIONS lays her usual beautiful historical detail over a wonderful story which brings the reader inexorably back into the past. Traveling from Venice to London to the English countryside,\u00c2\u00a0 the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2840\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Stars for TREACHEROUS TEMPTATIONS by Victoria Vane<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}