Even Bess is not safe with them around and we feel her helplessness, despair and sorrow, ultimately ending in sacrifice. He had fought, killed and destoryed for everything he had, but as much as he tried to fight it Farah was his one weakness. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. He was such a fascinating broken creature that fired up the pages-his animalistic sexuality was brutal in every scene and it felt so strange being aware of a (book) hero like that!

For a brief moment in time, Farah Leigh and Dougan were each other’s whole world, both orphaned at a young age and left to grow up in a place where nothing could be taken for granted but their young love for one another. Watch the poem read aloud with Keeping’s illustrations Poems are best read aloud and this one is great fun to read together, perhaps reading alternate verses or being different characters. It combines my obsession with anti-heroes and sexy historical romance, and weaves it all together into a story that's truly spellbinding. Dorian fought his lust for Farrah because of his past, but he wanted her with an animalistic hunger. This story touched me on all cylinders, had me going through the gamut of emotions, starting with sadness, anger, frustration, and fear that led on to becoming one of the most heart warmHe is so passionate without even trying to be-instead of doing everything to carve ice around his heart. When being held captive by Dorian proves to be the only way to keep Farah safe from those who would see her dead, Dorian makes Farah a scandalous proposition: marry him for protection in exchange for using her secret to help him exact revenge on his enemies. It's a Victorian villain romance with a tortured, traumatized MMC who's been in love with the FMC since they were kids.

This is fine by, I don’t mind but I was forcing myself to read a book that was sometimes supposed to be light and addicting. You’d be a fool to give it to me,” he mocked, twisting his features into something foreign and frightening. This new edition features rescanned artwork to capture the breath-taking detail of Keeping's illustrations and a striking new cover. He tells her they are getting married, because he was honoring a death bed wish of Dougan to protect and care for Dougan's Fairy.

As a young boy he was fiercely protective of his Fairy-despite the beatings he took Farah was the one who kept him happy. Dorian's background and dark attitude could have easily been written to make him a Beauty and the Beast caricature but instead he is given depth of emotion. Through his entire godforsaken life, she’d been the source of his strength, and now that they were reunited he could conquer anything. I got this for my sister, who in her younger years immersed herself in this sad poem about doomed love between a highwayman and Bess the daughter of a landlord. I loved that she never deserted Dougan when he was in prison, bringing him food every day and how his stories about her brought comfort to the other prisoners.

Though parts of this book were very predictable (I mean, any romance reader will see the twists coming, especially since I'm 90% sure I've read a book with a strikingly similar plot before), but I still loved every second of it. The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor//And the highwayman came riding-riding-riding- up to the old inn door. Until he was taken away from her, and now she is a widow and for years she hasn't even thought about another man, until she meets the dark and dangerous Dorian.It kind of reminded me of the 90s romances, where bodice rippers from the 70s and 80s started to become "gentler.