A Talent for Sin

by Lavinia Kent

She was blessed with a gift of temptation.

Violet, Lady Carrington, possesses everything a spirited woman could want out of life. Money (and lots of it). The freedom to make her own choices, with no husband to rule her. And a delightfully attentive young lover, Lord Peter St. Johns, to satisfy her every wild whim. But Peter desires more than Violet's lascivious attentions. He's desperate for her heart--and her hand in marriage.

Yet...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006173408X
• ISBN13: 9780061734083
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Super Sexy!

I wonder if this is Kent's first book of if she's written under another name? I'd love to get everything she's written. It's been a long time since I read such a steamy, satisfying romance! Plus it was interesting that Violet wasn't a dewy 20 year old, but a woman with experience and a mind of her own. I'm really looking forward to more Lavinia Kent!

I LOVED this book!

Highly sensuous without a cliche in sight! A Talent for Sin reminded me of the great romances Susan Wiggs, Kathleen Woodiwiss, and Laura Kinsale used to write, with a refreshingly intelligent and outspoken heroine and the man who falls for her against the odds. Loved it!

superb Regency romance

In 1818 the widow Lady Violet Carrington loves her life with no husband. She is a liberated woman due to her status and her wealth. Although she receives proposals, she rejects all of them because she logically thinks why she would never willingly become a second class citizen again. Besides which she has a younger hunk as her willing lover and she assumes he would never want to wed a woman seven years his senior. Her male is rich Lord Peter St. John who believes in marriage to one's beloved; in his case Violet, who he knows is recalcitrant about remarrying. Still she owns his heart and he prays he has hers too. Though he knows the risk he proposes; she refuses insisting he needs a virgin sometime in his future. Peter challenges his beloved to be his equal partner placing Violet in emotional peril as she begins to see how much he wants her and how far he is willing to go. Will she take a chance on a second marriage with love as the equalizer or will she choose her current single freedom? This is a superb Regency romance starring two likable lead protagonists who both think they know what they want. Violet is especially wonderful as she takes advantage of society's unwritten rules for widows while her lover Peter demands more of her and their relationship. Ironically his being younger than her make a marital match unacceptable by the Ton, but being lovers is fine by the aristocracy. Fans will enjoy this strong poignant historical as Violet must choose between to be or not to be married for that is the question. Harriet Klausner