Synopses & Reviews
New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries delights readers with the fourth Regency romance in her sexy Hellions of Halstead Hall series, featuring the dark and dangerous Lord Gabriel Sharpe.
To fulfill his grandmother’s ultimatum, Lord Gabriel Sharpe pursues a spitfire he believes desperately needs him. Then the tables are turned…
Like everything daredevil Gabe Sharpe does, wooing Virginia Waverly is a high-stakes game. Ever since her brother, Roger, died racing Lord Gabriel, Virginia has yearned to take her revenge on the reckless lord by beating him at his own sport. But when she challenges Lord Gabriel to a race, the hellion called the “Angel of Death” counters with a marriage proposal! Gabe knows Virginia is in dire financial straits—so why not marry her and solve both of their problems? She claims to be appalled by his proposal, but her response to his kisses says otherwise. And when the two of them begin to unravel the truth behind Roger’s death, Gabe takes the greatest gamble of all, offering the courageous beauty something more precious than any inheritance: true love.
Review
“Marvelous characterization, lovely conversation, and drama perfectly leavened with humor makes this a grand romantic adventure.” -- Starred review, Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
Drowning in guilt over his best friend's death seven years ago, Lord Gabriel Sharpe, the Angel of Death, knows his only hope at redemption is a race against a shocking opponent. Shrouded in darkness for the past seven years, the infamous racer Lord Gabriel Sharpe is known to accept every challenge to race thrown at him. When his next challenge comes in the form of his late best friend's sister, Virginia Waverly, Gabe is shocked. Yet she presents just the opportunity Gabe needs--marriage to fulfill his grandmother's ultimatum and ensure his inheritance. What he didn't count on was needing her love.
Synopsis
With her signature "sense of humor and delightfully delicious sensuality" (Romantic Times Book Reviews), New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries continues the sizzling Hellions of Halstead Hall series following the dark, dangerous, and dashing Lord Gabriel Sharpe. Daredevil Lord Gabriel Sharpe knows he must marry in order to inherit his grandmother's inheritance. But he does not expect his chance at marriage would appear in the feisty form of Virginia Waverly.
Ever since her brother died racing Lord Gabriel, Virginia has yearned to get her revenge by beating him at his own game. But when she challenges him to a race, Gabriel counters with a marriage proposal. After all, he knows Virginia is in dire financial straits--so why not marry her and solve both of their problems?
Virginia insists she's appalled by his proposal, but her response to his scorching kisses says otherwise. And when the two of them begin to unravel the truth behind her brother's death, Gabriel takes the greatest gamble of all, offering the courageous beauty something more precious than any inheritance--true love.
Synopsis
New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries delivers the fourth novel in her
Hellions of Halstead Hall series, filled with “lively repartee, fast action, luscious sensuality, and an abundance of humor” (
Library Journal ).
Lord Gabriel Sharpe has spent the last seven years, since his friend Roger Waverly’s death, drowning in guilt and dealing with it the only way he knows how: accepting the challenge to any race, no matter how dangerous.
When Virginia Waverly challenges Gabe to race the same course as the one that killed her brother Roger, Gabe realizes that Virginia is just what he needs to fulfil his grandmother’s ultimatum: marriage or no inheritance.
With General Waverly accusing Gabe of Roger’s death and Virginia’s refusal of him upon learning about his inheritance, Gabe is getting farther and farther from his goal of convincing Virginia to marry him. The only way he can think to show her he cares is to denounce his inheritance and make his fortune by winning the race—and her heart.
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About the Author
Sabrina Jeffries is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the Royal Brotherhood trilogy and the novels in the series The School for Heiresses, The Hellions of Halstead Hall, and The Duke’s Men, as well as many works of short fiction. Whatever time is not spent writing in a coffee-fueled haze is spent traveling with her husband and adult autistic son or indulging in one of her passions—jigsaw puzzles, chocolate, music, and costume parties. With more than eight million books in print in twenty different languages, the North Carolina author never regrets tossing aside a budding career in academics for the sheer joy of writing fun fiction and hopes that one day a book of hers will end up saving the world. She always dreams big.