Wicked Angel

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Forbidden love is always a scandalous choice....

She raced across the pasture, vaulted a fence, and landed, stunned and breathless, on top of the most handsome man she had ever seen. The bemused stranger stayed to capture the fancy of the brood of orphaned children in her charge, then stole Lauren Hill's heart with a searing kiss as he left. Lauren couldn't tell him she was a widowed countess fallen on hard times. She tried to forget him—until she saw him again at a London ball. The man who haunted her dreams was a duke, out of her class . . . and he was pledged to another woman.

The ton is ablaze with talk of the ravishing Bavarian countess. Stunned, Alexander Christian, Duke of Sutherland, recognizes Lauren as the country girl who's captured his heart. Duty has forced him to pledge himself to another, to take his proper place in society and in Parliament. He wants one night with his blue-eyed enchantress, but will he be able to walk away from her again, or will he risk it all to be with the woman who fires his blood and makes him think of a . . . Wicked Angel?

Contains mature themes.

©1999 Dinah Dinwiddie (P)1999 Tantor Media

Lovely story, funny too!

Enjoyed this book so much i listened to it twice. Really love the heroine, beautiful love story!

Super Real

The emotions of loving where honor & commitment elsewhere is compromised, and showing how deeply the others are hurt by it, too, was unique. And it was also heart wretching & somehow refreshing. This story was powerfully engaging and very well written. And their love was believable.

There was a section in the last hour, however, that i found undermined their love. The dukes despicable behavior towards heroine was too cruel & he never paid for any of it. Hurting is one thing. But both of them hurt; and he wasn't just hurting - he was screwing other women (not shown, just narrated) & was outright cruel to heroine in public. I had doubts about him being worthy of her throughout, but that last bit to crush her when she was already down (ruined by him) was unforgivable IMO w/o some major public groveling.