Devil's Daughter: The Ravenels meet The Wallflowers

by Lisa Kleypas

Overview

NAMED OF THE BEST ROMANCES BY OPRAH MAG!

Although beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he’s a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband’s life a misery, and she’ll never forgive him for it. But when Phoebe attends a family wedding, she encounters a dashing and impossibly charming stranger who sends a fire-and-ice jolt of attraction through her. And then he introduces himself...as none other than West Ravenel.

West is a man with a tarnished past. No apologies, no excuses. However, from the moment he meets Phoebe, West is consumed by irresistible desire...not to mention the bitter awareness that a woman like her is far out of his reach. What West doesn’t bargain on is that Phoebe is no straitlaced aristocratic lady. She’s the daughter of a strong-willed wallflower who long ago eloped with Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent—the most devilishly wicked rake in England.

Before long, Phoebe sets out to seduce the man who has awakened her fiery nature and shown her unimaginable pleasure. Will their overwhelming passion be enough to overcome the obstacles of the past?

Only the devil’s daughter knows…

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062371935
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/19/2019
Series:	The Ravenels , #5
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	82,828
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

New York Times Lisa Kleypas graduated from Wellesley College with a political science degree. Her historical romance and contemporary women’s fiction novels are published in forty different languages, and are bestsellers all over the world. Currently she lives in Southern California with her husband Gregory.

Editorial Reviews

The rare author who can make you laugh and cry—on the same page.” — Julia Quinn

“...a delightfully smart and sensual historical romance...” — NPR

“Long-time fans of RITA Award-winning Kleypas will relish the cameo appearances of so many of her beloved characters, while readers new and returning alike will revel in her stylish prose, sharp wit, and swoon-worthy sensuality...” — Booklist (starred review)

“...this novel is a work of art. Kleypas’ prose is intoxicatingly gorgeous, as lush and romantic as the circumstances of her stories. It’s often said that you can never go wrong with a Lisa Kleypas book, and Devil’s Daughter does much to maintain that aphorism.” — Entertainment Weekly

“...Kleypas (Hello Stranger, 2018, etc.) is at the top of her game.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Devil’s Daughter is a must read.” — BookPage

“A love story to savor. Another winner in Kleypas’ Ravenels series, with elegant prose, a fascinating heroine, and a Victorian London constructed with compelling historical detail.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Kleypas will continue to win readers’ hearts in book four of the Ravenels [...] Kleypas makes you feel every intense moment; each heated kiss and all the thrilling action as you race to the perfect ending. There is nothing quite like a Kleypas romance.” — RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)

“Kleypas’s fans will appreciate the high action and scintillating twists and trysts.” — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Kleypas will continue to win readers’ hearts in book four of the Ravenels [...] Kleypas makes you feel every intense moment; each heated kiss and all the thrilling action as you race to the perfect ending. There is nothing quite like a Kleypas romance.

RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)

2019-01-21

The fifth in Kleypas' popular Ravenels series puts a young flame-haired widow in the path of her late husband's tormenter. But neither is what they seem.

When Phoebe, Lady Clare, married her chronically ill childhood sweetheart, Henry, she vowed to take care of him. Eventually, Henry succumbed to his wasting disease, leaving her to raise two young sons. While managing her grief and supporting her children, Phoebe is content to allow Henry's cousin, Edward Larson, to run the Clare estate in Essex. But a trip to her younger brother's wedding at the sprawling Eversby Priory introduces Phoebe to estate manager Weston Ravenel, who sparks her interest in new farming technologies, and in his tall, brawny physique and piercing dark blue eyes. Alas, West had tormented sickly Henry in boarding school, earning him Phoebe's intense dislike. West is something unusual in the genre: a self-reformed rake. When carousing and pleasure-seeking lost their charm, he left London and began a new life of honest hard work on his brother's estate. Phoebe, the daughter of a duke and the wealthy mother of the heir to a viscountcy, is out of his league. Phoebe and West are seated together at a lavish wedding dinner, an exquisite, transporting scene of small intimacies spanning two chapters in which Kleypas (Hello Stranger, 2018, etc.) is at the top of her game. Unlike Henry, West is both "the storm and the shelter"; he "kissed like a man who had lived too fast, learned too late, and had finally found the thing he wanted." Readers will enjoy revisiting beloved characters from both the Wallflowers series and from earlier installments of the Ravenels, although West's protestations of low worth ring hollow when surrounded by happily married friends and relatives with similarly debauched pasts.

A widow emerges from mourning with the help of a reformed rake in a truly romantic tale that stands well on its own.

Kirkus Reviews

The rare author who can make you laugh and cry—on the same page.

Julia Quinn

Long-time fans of RITA Award-winning Kleypas will relish the cameo appearances of so many of her beloved characters, while readers new and returning alike will revel in her stylish prose, sharp wit, and swoon-worthy sensuality...

Booklist (starred review)

Devil’s Daughter is a must read.

BookPage

...a delightfully smart and sensual historical romance...

NPR

...this novel is a work of art. Kleypas’ prose is intoxicatingly gorgeous, as lush and romantic as the circumstances of her stories. It’s often said that you can never go wrong with a Lisa Kleypas book, and Devil’s Daughter does much to maintain that aphorism.

Entertainment Weekly

The listener is immediately immersed in this historical romance featuring Phoebe, Lady Clare, and West Ravenel. Phoebe is a widow who travels to a family wedding, where she meets West, a reformed scoundrel who tormented her late husband when they were boys at school. Narrator Mary Jane Wells’s rich voice lends itself to the story. West has matured and developed a wonderful sense of humor, and Wells has the listener warming up to him. Phoebe has two young sons whom Wells endows with appropriately youthful voices. Phoebe is the daughter of Evie and Lord St. Vincent, characters from Kleypas’s Wallflower series. While listeners need not to be familiar with that series, those who are will enjoy this visit with old friends. S.B. 2020 Audies Winner © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2019 - AudioFile

The listener is immediately immersed in this historical romance featuring Phoebe, Lady Clare, and West Ravenel. Phoebe is a widow who travels to a family wedding, where she meets West, a reformed scoundrel who tormented her late husband when they were boys at school. Narrator Mary Jane Wells’s rich voice lends itself to the story. West has matured and developed a wonderful sense of humor, and Wells has the listener warming up to him. Phoebe has two young sons whom Wells endows with appropriately youthful voices. Phoebe is the daughter of Evie and Lord St. Vincent, characters from Kleypas’s Wallflower series. While listeners need not to be familiar with that series, those who are will enjoy this visit with old friends. S.B. 2020 Audies Winner © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2019 - AudioFile