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Dangerous Desire : A passionately sensuous historical romance trilogy Kindle Edition

by Emmanuelle de Maupassant (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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One encounter changes everything.

When the Earl of Rancliffe suffers humiliation at the hands of a mysterious woman, he vows revenge.

However, his anger soon becomes obsession, as she leads him into ever more dangerous games.

As cruel as she is beautiful, his nemesis has no intention of revealing her true identity, nor of entangling her heart.

But in a world of vice and dark desire, what does she secretly yearn for?

Love gallant heroes, delicious villains, brave heroines, and sizzling encounters?

Prepare to devour a world of danger, dark temptation, and desire!

The complete trilogy edition comprises all three titles from this deliciously gothic series, combining mystery and adventure with dark romance:

Forbidden Desire

Forbidden Temptation

Forbidden Seduction

The trilogy contains the following tropes, themes and settings:

Hidden identity / Heroine in disguise

Enemies to lovers

Forced Proximity

Unwilling bride

Kidnap

Power play

Revenge

Imprisonment in an Italian castle

A murderer at large on a transatlantic ocean liner

A decadent gentleman's club in London

Heat level : open door bedroom scenes with extremely high heat

These three titles were originally published as the following, within the 'Noire' trilogy:
‘The Gentlemen’s Club’ (first published in 2014)
‘Italian Sonata’ (2017) and
‘Murder on the SS Leviathan’ (2021)

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0993RGPKW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Castle Press (July 30, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 30, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2336 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B09NRFJK1Q

Best Sellers Rank: #873,440 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,131 in Gothic Romance
- #2,212 in Gothic Romances
- #9,107 in Victorian Historical Romance (Kindle Store)

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Lyn

Trilogy well worth the read

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2023

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Book One
Extremely steamy and very well written.
Two people with dark desires drawn to each other navigate their feelings for each other.

Book Two
Cecile, Lord McCaulay’s sister is now an integral part of this story.
Henry and Maude’s relationship evolves and Cecile spends time in a dark and gloomy castle in Italy.
This story is also steamy but brings with it a dark character that is intent on revenge.
Maude and Henry’s dark sexual tendencies lead to peril.
There is plenty of danger, lies and a mystery to be solved.

Book Three
Cecile leaves the castle unscathed along with one of it’s inhabitants, Lucrezia.
Traveling on their transatlantic crossing to Rio de Janeiro, Henry, Maude, Cecile and Lucrezia hope to recover from their previous bad tidings in Italy.
With no such luck murders and mystery seem to follow them.
Henry enlists Lance, a previous acquaintance of Cecile’s to help him protect the ladies from harm.

I really enjoyed listening to this trilogy.
It’s a story of how you can find love in the most unusual places, evil a plenty, revenge, mysteries and true friendship through sacrifice.
You can buy all books separately but it is best read as a trilogy to get the full scope of the story and how it all pans out.
Please be advised the first two stories are dark but integral to the storyline.
Wonderfully written and narrated.
Lucky enough to have the ebook and the audiobook.

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Cbarnett

Dangerous Desire

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2022

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I enjoyed this box set but be warned there is a lot of sex and if you are not comfortable with this then these books are not for you.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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Jean Sander

Sound Effects Adds Realism to Story

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2023

I was surprised to hear different chapters begin with sound effects from the environment the story was taking place. Whether it was horses clip clop or a boats whistle the various scoundrel effects were charming additions that really helped build the story’s setting. I got quite a kick out of them.

The narrator did a good job with the various voices. The story was sexually explicit to the extreme. Each story in the trilogy was different although based around the same family. I really enjoyed the balance of the 3rd story’s erotic scenes with the storyline. I’ve enjoyed this author’s other writings.

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Tdavid

Be ready for the stream!!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2023

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Three stand alone stories that compliment each other. Be ready for the steam!!! Each is well written and the storylines are spicy. This author never disappoints as she proves again. You wont be disappointed you will enjoy mystery, sizzle & of course love.
I was gifted this read as an ARC and this is my voluntary and honest review.

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2022

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From a raunchy show at a man’s club in London to Buenes Aires and beyond the adventures of two couples and the danger of a man bent on spite and retribution. Characters are interesting and the story is true to its time with a bit of raunchiness involved

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2022

A bundle of extremes, three differently structured stories. I went for the cover and the promise of a dark gothic romance, but almost gave up after the first story. To be clear, I didnt like the first story. The facts are promising: free-spirited young lady with secrets, a lord who never wanted to marry, intrigued and falling in love. What is nicely done is that we follow both stories until they come together. I didn’t like the two characters at all, they really didnt appeal to me. In addition, I found the story more a recital of far-reaching sexual experiments than a real story. Combined with pompous language it didn’t do much for me.
So I was hesitant to start on the second story. I liked the second story much better. The writer still uses the pompous, overelegant language, but it fits the mood of this story. Its dark, mysterious. Henry en Maud are on their honeymoon and they’ve taken Henry’s sister Cecile with them. To give them some privacy, Cecile is staying with Mauds familie in Castello Di Scogliera in the debauched world of the sexual deviant Conte Di Cavour: Lorenzo, who was already introduced in the first story,. He has made a bet with his evenly licentious half-sister Lucrezia to seduce Henry’s innocent sister
Maud and Henry are enjoying their honeymoon in their own way until Lorenzo disrupts it.
In a threatening atmosphere, secrets are revealed and Cecile learns more about the nature of people.
The third book reads more like a suspenseful murder mystery.
The journey continues on a ship. Maud, Henry and Cecile have taken Lucrezia as company for Cecile. On board, she meets the charming Lance again, whom she had also met at the beginning of the voyages. As she and Lance grow closer, quite a few things happen on board and people are getting murdered.
The romance between Lance and Cecile develops in a very different way than Henry and Maud;s in the first book: much more conventional.
In this story, the author remains elegant and elaborate in her use of language, but I find it a lot more approachable.
What I started to find a bit annoying was the excessive use of the word “;cara “;, well, once you start paying attention to something. I found this story the most enjoyable to read.
All in all Im glad I persevered, because in the end I think its definitely worth it.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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Love2Read

Both Steamy and Sweet

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2023

I listened to an audiobook of this trilogy. I enjoyed the story, but could listen to the narrator read the newspaper, a boring business report, or pretty much anything.. He’s that good.

These books are both sweet and hot. They revolve around true love and finding your soul mate, and good wins over evil.

There are some shipboard murders, BDSM, and multiple partners, if such things are important for you to know.

The writing is very good, but as I said, the narration is excellent. If I had a complaint about this book, it was the periodic intrusion of music into the narration. It didn’t help or add anything to the story.

I received the audiobook from the author for free. I thank her for her generosity, but it had no effect on this review. All opinions in this review reflect my true and honest reactions to reading this book.

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onyxnox, crocheting fanatic

Dark, twisty, sensual gothic

Reviewed in Canada on February 2, 2022

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Thanks to BookSprout for an ARC copy; this is my freely given opinion.

This was a trilogy package, that was previously released as the Noire trilogy, I believe. I had not read it yet, but it was definitely on my to-read list.

This started out as a story of Henry McCaulay, an aristocratic bachelor, with no interest in marriage, who visits his gentleman's club and becomes rather obsessed with a new entertainer there, Mademoiselle Noire. She enthralls and intrigues him with her very open and adventurous sexuality which pushes his boundaries too.

The first part of the trilogy seems at times to be two separate stories intertwined as well, as it is also the story of Maud Finchingfield, who is a bluestocking lady, raised in Italy, and visiting with her Aunt Isabella. Aunt Isabella is playing matchmaker with her niece, in the hopes of her marrying her son, an Italian count who sounds like quite the rake. Maud has no interest in this alliance and spurns him in a way he takes offence to.

Their two storylines seem quite discrete until Henry meets a friend of his sister, Cecile. This friend is Maud, who finds a way to express herself and indulge in her fantasies as Mademoiselle Noire. This first story was very sensual and about pushing sexual boundaries.

The second part of the trilogy is a continuation of Maud and Henry's story, as they travel to Italy, and they take his sister Cecile. She spends time with some of Maud's relatives, to give the couple their privacy. This story is more about the cousin, the Count, and his half sister, Lucrezia. Here we see more of the Count and his personality which is quite dark, and twisted. He is very manipulative and controlling of his relatives, including his sister, and turns stalking and seducing Cecile into a game for them all. This story has a much more dark and gothic turn, including incest, madness, and murder.

The third story takes place on a ship, the Leviathan, and is about Maud, Henry, Lucrezia, and Cecile, and is also quite dark and gothic, involving some rather twisted relationships, and murder again.

I quite enjoyed this trilogy, and dark twistiness of it. I did feel that the first story laid out the relationship of Maud and Henry, and set them up for some of the twists of their relationship later on well, but it felt a bit disconnected to the other two stories for me. The latter two were much more classic gothic. I do wonder what drove Maud to behave as she did, in terms of her sexual exploration, and the tension it would have/could have put on her relationship with Henry. Was she just exploring? Was she trying to push him? What was her motivation - or is there a darkness to her that was evident in her cousin, the Count? There was quite a stark difference in the innocence of Cecile versus the natures of the other characters which was marked, and made for interesting relationship dynamics in the stories as well, especially in the games the Count and Lucrezia were playing. Some parts of this gave me some of that same feeling I had when I first read Flowers in the Attic years ago, especially that second story, and the references to the various relationships in the Counts family history.

A 3.75 stars out of 5 for me.

Matante7

Not to my taste

Reviewed in Canada on August 31, 2022

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I managed to finish but if I'd only gotten the first story to read that would have been the last. I found it to vague to follow most scenes. Even the blatant sex was difficult to imagine. Definitely will never read anything by this author again.

For Old Times' Sake

4.5 Heated Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2023

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Dangerous Desire is a trilogy of gothic stories all set around the same family. These are historical standalone stories that are interlinked, and this book brings all three together.

Book one introduces Henry and Maud, both of whom are leading secret double lives. This is a bold, sensual story, and not for the faint-hearted. I found this to be an intriguing and engrossing read. Set in 1800s London, I definitely felt drawn into this complex world created by the alluring Madam Noir!!

Book two has a different feel to it. This is an atmospheric novel of intrigue, suspense and revenge. Cecile (younger sister of Henry) accompanies Henry and Maud on a trip to an Italian castello where disturbing and strange happenings kept me absorbed and engaged throughout.

Book three is the concluding novel in this trilogy, and is best described as a mystery romance. Set aboard a ship sailing to South America, Cecile, Henry and Maud encounter danger, threats and murder! Along the way Cecile encounters the steadfast and swoony Lance where their relationship blossoms into more.

I really enjoyed all these stories, and the way they were interwoven worked really well for me. I enjoyed the characters. They were complex, flawed, and intriguing while also feeling real and believable.

Kindle Customer julie

Dangerous indeed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2022

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Phew , a well written erotic and steamy story very hot indeed with graphic detail .

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