For Evie, her now hard-working husband is a temptation, and she wonders if she should allow their marriage to become real. He realizes that its worth isn’t as much as Evie and he had believed, so he throws himself into the work of turning the club around. Evie nurses her father while Sebastian takes stock of the club. Once back in England, the newlyweds move into the gambling club. They marry, and that consummation scene? Hot, hot, hot. Sebastian and Evie journey to Gretna Green together in miserable, snowy conditions.
Evie doesn’t want to fall in love with a man who is sure to become a philanderer. There is one condition of Evie’s that Sebastian doesn’t care for: they will consummate the marriage to make it legal, but after that, no sex. He will marry her for her fortune and free her to visit her father at his deathbed. Evie figures that if Sebastian is that desperate, he won’t sneer at the idea of marrying her instead.Īnd indeed, Sebastian, once he’s done getting over his surprise, agrees to Evie’s proposal. Vincent, a notorious rake who kidnapped Evie’s friend Lillian because she was an heiress and he desperately needed to marry into money. She escapes the Maybricks’ home and goes unchaperoned to see Sebastian, Viscount St. So Evie takes matters into her own hands.
And getting away from the Maybricks has become imperative: Evie’s father is close to death, and the Maybricks’ won’t let her go to him. Not only is Evie not even a little attracted to Eustace, she knows that she will never get out from under the Maybricks’ thumb if she marries her cousin.
Evie lives with her mother’s nasty relatives, the Maybricks, and now the Maybricks have decided to keep her father’s fortune in the family by marrying Evie to her cousin Eustace. It took me a while to get to it because I was disappointed in the previous entry in your Wallflowers series, It Happened One Autumn, so I am happy to say that I enjoyed Devil in Winter very much.Įvangeline “Evie” Jenner is shy, prone to stuttering, and the daughter of an ex-boxer and gambling club owner, so despite her considerable fortune, no gentlemen have offered for her. I realize I’m probably the last person in the solar system to read this book, but read it I did. Janine B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviews 18th-century / Historical Romances / rake / Romance / virgin 26 Comments JanuREVIEW: Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
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