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Set in 1831, bestseller Laurens's crowd-pleasing hot-blooded romance reintroduces Dillon Caxton, a young rake now reformed, who first appeared in A Rogue's Proposal. Recruited by the Jockey Club to investigate rumors of race fixing in Newmarket, Suffolk, Dillon is startled to discover that a gorgeous young Irishwoman calling herself Priscilla "Pris" Dalling (in reality an earl's daughter) is trying to get a look at the two official tomes on breeding and racing in England, the Breeding Register and the Stud Book. The green-eyed femme fatale is determined to help her twin brother, Lord Russell Dalling, whose dream to train an Irish Derby winner for Lord Cromarty's stables has landed them both in heart-stopping danger. Wanton sparks fly, bodices rip and trousers drop, though the novel's main juice comes from the well-researched horse-racing backdrop, not from the sometimes accidentally funny lust scenes ("Far beyond sanity, her world shook; reality tilted and quaked"). (On sale Mar. 14)
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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When her twin brother, Russell, disappears soon after taking a job as a horse trainer for Lord Cromarty, Lady Priscilla Dalloway fears he may have become entangled in a dangerous racing swindle. To find out, Priscilla needs information from the official register of horses kept at the Jockey Club in Newmarket. But the official Keeper of the Breeding Register, Dillon Caxton, has no intention of letting Priscilla anywhere near the book. Priscilla is prepared to use all of her feminine wiles and stunning beauty to seduce Dillon into granting her access to the register only to discover that Dillon is equally determined to seduce all of Priscilla's secrets out of her. The high-stakes world of horse racing in Regency times provides the fascinating setting for New York Times best-selling Laurens' latest Cynster novel, another of the author's lusciously sensual historical romances. Deftly laced with passion and danger, What Price Love? is sexy, suspenseful, and splendidly satisfying. John Charles
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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3.3 out of 5 stars (32 customer reviews)
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing - Formulaic and dull, April 7 2006
By A reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: What Price Love?: A Cynster Novel (Hardcover)
I used to LOVE Stephanie Laurens' novels -- especially her Cynster books. Sadly, she's lost that special something that made one fall in love with her heroes and sigh with satisfaction when the novel ended.I reserved her latest book at the library, and am grateful I didn't spend more than the 75 cent reserve fee for it.
In "What Price Love?" Laurens presents stiff cardboard characters without intriguing personalities. The details about horse racing and "the book" Dillon was protecting seemed like filler to meet her contract page quota. The mystery was flat, and the ending rushed. Even the traditionally exciting love scenes weren't as hot as usual, because who could care about these people?
I am really, really sad to see a favorite author churn out such a lifeless tale. "What Price Love?" gets two stars instead of one only because Laurens at least gave us an update on some of the other Cynster families.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
What a disapointment!, Mar 31 2006
By zmom "Avid Reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: What Price Love?: A Cynster Novel (Hardcover)
I was really looking forward to this newest edition from Ms Laurens, and I am still shaking my head over just how awful it is! All the way through I felt as though I were in a parallel universe where all the familiar characters were poor imagages of other novels. There was nothing to make you like the hero or the heroine... nothing to connect them to the reader or to each other. Who was Dillon? Who was Pris? What were their big secrets? Who cares? The mystery didn't last through the middle of the book, the romance that we expect never even started (not, we all know, the same as sex). Just poorly written and inexcuseable from an author like Stephanie Laurens.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst book yet - Don't bother, April 20 2006
By Kathy Bage "Love a good romance" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: What Price Love?: A Cynster Novel (Hardcover)
I used to love Stephanie Laurens' books and purchased the entire Cynster series (1st generation). The Bastion series has not proven to be as good so I stopped purchasing and read library copies. This last series (2nd generation Cynster)is nothing short of painful. I struggled through Gerard Debbington's story (The Truth About Love) but at least I finished it. This book I stopped at chapter 6 as a waste of time. Ms. Laurens stories have gotten so formulaic and boring that only the character names seem changed from one book to the next. Ms. Laurens should really consider retiring the Cynster saga as these latest very mediocre (I'm being kind here) books denigrate the original series.
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