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SECOND SIGHT AND SEDUCTION…
Daniel Mackenzie lives up to the reputation of the scandalous Mackenzie family—he has wealth, looks, and talent, and women love him. When he meets Violet Bastien—one of the most famous spiritual mediums in England—he immediately knows two things: that Miss Bastien is a fraud, and that he’s wildly attracted to her.
Violet knows she can’t really contact the other side, but she’s excellent at reading people. She discerns quickly that Daniel is intelligent and dangerous to her reputation, but she also finds him generous, handsome, and outrageously wicked. But spectres from Violet’s past threaten to destroy her, and she flees England, adopting yet another identity.
Daniel is determined to find the elusive Violet and pursue the passion he feels for her. And though Violet knows that her scandalous past will keep her from proper marriage, her attraction to Daniel is irresistible. It’s not until Daniel is the only one she can turn to that he proves he believes in something more than cold facts. He believes in love.
- Sales Rank: #418236 in Books
- Published on: 2013-10-01
- Released on: 2013-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.00" w x 4.38" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 384 pages
From Booklist
In the past, ladies have slapped Daniel Mackenzie for kissing them, but this is the first time a woman whacked Daniel on the head with a vase. Then again, Violet Bastien is not exactly a typical English lady. From the moment they first meet, Daniel knows that Violet does not really communicate with ghosts, but Violet mistakes Daniel’s interest in her professional “devices” as a threat to her business. One kiss and one major migraine later, Daniel discovers that Violet has fled London with her mother and their maid. Tracking down Violet now becomes Daniel’s number one priority because while the lady might have more than her share of secrets, it is no secret to Daniel that Violet is the only woman in the world for him. The sixth book in RITA Award–winning Ashley’s Mackenzie series will not disappoint fans with its scintillating blend of captivating characters, incendiary sexual chemistry, and an expertly evoked late-Victorian setting that makes excellent use of the era’s fascination with both spiritualism and scientific advances. --John Charles
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Praise for the Mackenzies series
“Ashley writes the kinds of heroes I crave.”—Elizabeth Hoyt, New York Times bestselling author
“I adore this novel; it’s heartrending, funny, honest, and true.”—Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling author
“A sexy, passion-filled romance that will keep you reading until dawn.”—Julianne MacLean, USA Today bestselling author
About the Author
Jennifer Ashley, New York Times bestselling author and winner of a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, writes as Allyson James and Jennifer Ashley. She's penned more than forty-five novels and a dozen or so novellas in historical romance, paranormal romance, and urban fantasy. She now lives in the Southwest with her husband and cats, spends most of her time in the wonderful world of her stories, and also enjoys hiking, music, and building dollhouses and dollhouse miniatures.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Daniel is lovely but the story suffers from TMMF.
By OLT
TMMF is my very own acronym for Too Much Mackenzie Family and I can't believe I said that. I love all those hunky Mackenzie men. Matter of fact, if I could lose 10 pounds and 45 of my years and time-travel back to the 1800s, I'd be first in line to see if maybe one of them would choose ME instead of the lovely lady who actually got him to settle down. And I loved reading about all the family together in Mackenzie Family Christmas: The Perfect Gift (Highland Pleasures).
But here not so much. This story started out well and I was impressed by the characters and the plot. Daniel is a true jewel among young men. He's charismatic, caring, kind, handsome, very attractive to women, rich, a math whiz, and totally into inventing thing like hot air balloons and motorcars. He's 25 now and it's time for author Ashley to get him married off.
Enter heroine Violet. She's into inventing things too so we know she's perfect for him. Only problem is she's a bit of a flimflam artist, along with her mom. They're from the poor south side of London. Violet's been raised by her mother (no father around) and to survive they work as clairvoyants/mediums/fortune-tellers, going from place to place in England and Europe. Apparently Violet's mother maybe does have a bit of clairvoyance and that's where the idea sprang from.
Violet also has a traumatic incident in her past. At 16 she was betrayed by her mentor/father-figure Jacobi (another flimflammer) and was raped. (Not a spoiler really) So Violet, now about 28, is coping as well as she can, getting on with her life but unable to bear intimacy with a man without reacting in panic and fear.
The first half of this book has Daniel and Violet meeting and discovering things about each other and was a good read. Daniel, once he knows of Violet's PTSD, is patient and loving with her. So the romance is good.
It's the rest of the book that messed up the story for me. Ashley crammed as much "stuff" (I can't think of a better word) into this than I would have thought humanly possible. Balloon rides, seances, fortune telling, fisticuffs with bad guys, lots of sex scenes, a friend with syphilis, discussions about machines, motorcar building and test driving, looking for Jacobi, and more scenes with Mackenzie family members than I could ever have wanted or felt necessary. I think everybody except Louisa makes an appearance here.
I found myself skimming the last half of the book and was relieved when it came to an end. Although I appreciated the love story, I did not appreciate the whole story.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
One more Mackenzie marvel
By Danker
I have loved this series, so the re-emergence of characters from previous instalments is welcomed, although they must be off-putting to readers coming cold to this story.
And I disagree with the reviewer who was alienated by Ashley's treatment of Violets's past. Yes, it was violent and oft mentioned, even dwelt on. Indeed, it is the most powerful part of the story and handled unflinchingly, but in an empathetic manner. Violet is a wonderful, courageous heroine, full of flaws and fears but yearning to be light, honest and free.
Her mother is a leech who is rightly exposed as lacking the most essential characteristics of a caring parent.
The Mackenzies are as plentiful and gorgeous as usual.
The H, Daniel, is almost too marvelous to be true, even for a romance. In regard to his relationship with Violet, he shines through almost all of the book. His only failings seem to be that he is rich, indulged and easily able to charm everyone he meets. (Surely one of his previous lovers found him lacking?)
This story starts with a bang, accelerates in a satisfying way, but somehow fizzles at the end.
It is difficult to understand why the intensity fades towards the finale.
Perhaps it is because the ominous warnings by Hart and Ian aren't matched by Daniel's subsequent behaviour?
Or because Violet almost seems to be subsumed by the power of his family?
Or because Daniel's prediction that they would both be burned by their relationship never materialises?
Finally - could someone enumerate a list of the wicked deeds? Certainly the comeuppance for the red-headed man should rank as ruthless, but it is hard to see any others as wicked.
Despite these reservations, this is still better than 90% of the romances currently on sale, so it deserves a 4.
PS Thanks, thanks to the author for the pricing of this book. She deserves grateful congratulation.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
The Mackenzie Series Has Jumped the Shark
By Clio Reads
I loved the first four books of this series, the ones that focus on the original four Mackenzie brothers: Hart, Mac, Cameron, and Ian. Later books in the series focus on more distant relations (this one is about Cameron's oldest son, Daniel), and like Stephanie Laurens' Bar Cynster series, things are getting ridiculous.
The main problem with this book is that the plot tries to do way too much. Part of that is a function of the series: every time Ashley brings back a character we know from previous books, she writes a summary of their backstory to remind us about them. It would have been better to forego these reminders, because those of us who know the series mostly don't need our memories jogged, and those who pick up this book as a stand-alone don't need to know the backgrounds of minor characters in order to understand this plot, and so either way, it's distracting.
The other part of it is that the plot of this story is just too ambitious. Violet, the heroine, has a tortured past, and when Daniel learns her secret, he vows to avenge her. This means hunting down and revenging not one, but two men. This is a tall order, and one he doesn't actually get started on until the last 15% of the book. Meanwhile, Violet is nearly violated again by a third man, but luckily she doesn't even bother to tell Daniel about that, because if she had, surely he'd try to hunt him down, too. Also, Daniel seems to suffer cardiac arrest the way some of the women of the era suffered fainting spells, and though the story finds him twice on the very brink of death, the plot barrels along without dwelling either on his injuries or his recovery, as if restarting his heart were as easy as passing smelling salts under his nose. The plot is so inflated that conflicts arise and are left without resolution, simply because there isn't time to follow up all the loose ends. In addition to the unavenged near-rape of the heroine, there is a scene where Violet watches Daniel enter a carriage with a passel of courtesans (he has a chaste excuse, but Violet doesn't know that) and she is distraught at his faithlessness, but the next time she sees him, she doesn't give any indication that she knows or was hurt by his betrayal. Huh? I'd have thought Ashley just forgot about writing that scene, except that it does get mentioned again, in passing, near the end of the book.
Finally, I get frustrated by books where the tension between the main characters could be easily resolved if they'd just have a conversation. This is such a story. Daniel decides relatively early on that Violet is The One, but he doesn't tell her, so she reasonably assumes (given that he's an aristocratic heir to a fortune and she's a lower middle-class fortune teller) that their relationship is just a dalliance on his part. I found myself frustrated by the misunderstandings that ensued, until I thought, "He needs to tell her. It's not as if she's a mind-reader." -And then I thought (since she makes her living as a spiritualist) with a chuckle, "Well, actually, she kind of is." Oops.
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