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As a young woman in Victorian England, Anna Champion knows all too well the social mores that value prettiness over sense, and etiquette over honesty. But when she stands up to the boorishness of dashing Christopher Davenport at a summertime ball, Anna unwittingly attracts his wrath―and becomes entangled in his malicious scheming.

After a lifetime of harboring shame and resentment, Christopher, a ruthless con artist, wants revenge, and unfortunately for Anna, he’s decided that she will be the perfect pawn in his terrible plot. With a fierceness of spirit uncommon in well-bred young ladies in the nineteenth century, Anna will have to use her intelligence and courage to protect her loved ones. But can she also save herself?

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Nina Pennacchi lives in a city near the sea. She enjoys walking on the beach and imagining stories of nineteenth-century England.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Crossing (July 14, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 451 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1503944409
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1503944404
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches

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A native of Nebraska, Scott P. Sheridan holds an MA in modern languages from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and a PhD in French literature from the University of Iowa. While at the University of Iowa, he worked as a research assistant at the Translation Laboratory. In addition to being a scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, he is a translator of both literary works and scholarly articles from French and Italian into English.
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T. Jennings

Take a chance on this book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2023

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I read the reviews on this book, which were up and down. I rarely write a review, but this book was actually something - well something I can't quite put my finger on, but well worth the read! It has triggers and Christopher is a piece of work, but I promise you that you won't be disappointed!

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Tbascoebuzz

Secrets, surprises, dark suspense....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2015

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Certainly not all stories are for all people. This is definitely a "dark" suspense of a vengeful con-artist scheming years for his revenge and taking no thought of the catastrophic ruin he leaves in his wake. It's not a happy story or a story that will make you feel good, even though it does have a semi-happy ending. It was phenomenally consuming. It's been quite a long time since a book took such complete possession of my attention...filling me with angst for a complete fictional character. But Ms. Pennacchi did it, and boy does she do it with total, perfect precision.

Christopher Davenport is a very tall and darkly handsome man with his striking blue eyes and black hair. He's pompous, arrogant and very focused on his brutal goal of vengeance. He's harsh and never smiles. He's extremely serious and harbors deep resentment(s) and hatred towards the man who sired him and caused his mothers' death. Christopher's sole purpose in life is to ruin this man...no matter who he hurts to accomplish his goal. This vendetta that he's plotted for over ten years to complete, consumes and tortures him. He's hardened, cruel, vicious, violent and calloused without regrets. He's embittered and utterly cold. He has no friends by choice - - never allows others to infiltrate his life....never allows himself to connect with anyone. He's emotionally shut off. He's cocky, severe and powerful...extremely in control of all things...of every aspect of his life. He's a force of nature. Everything he does is for a reason...behind every word is a point to his actions...and it's usually never good. And when Miss Anna Champion purposefully and publicly humiliates him for his rude manners, he decides to add her to his vicious scheme.

How can you not love a 19th century character like Anna Champion? She's profoundly strong and beyond brave. Though she's no raving beauty, she's learned and quite intelligent and makes untold sacrifices for her ill father and three young siblings without help or funds. She doesn't care whether she marries or not. She's happy. And through unimaginable humiliation and terror, she still manages to hold her trembling self together and resolves to endure her nightmarish and traumatic predicament. She's resolute and determined. She's survived a brutal sexual assault and is blackmailed into marriage. She's frightened and desolate...degraded and almost defeated.

Parts of this story were heartbreaking and difficult to read. I bawled buckets (which I'm sure was the authors' intention). The author [very capably] made me feel the hopelessness of Anna, the heroine of this story. But can you imagine being a woman of this era (early 19th century)...without a voice or choices of decisions? Suffering in silence the condoned abuses legally enacted upon you...and you must submit and there is nobody to help you even if you did speak up? Speaking out would make matters worse. I loved how this author painstakingly took me into the riveting hell of Anna's pain - - allowed me to grovel and experience her hell......and then ever so slowly brought me into the promise of her healing. Ms. Pennacchi ever so slowly takes the reader through the depths of Christopher Davenport's life as a child and what events shaped him into the damaged adult he's become. You sometimes cry for him and other times hate him with deep loathing....and still other times you pity him. I love how Anna patiently plots to find a way out of her nightmarish life without causing harm to her young siblings and ill father. This story wrapped it's big arms around me and reeled me in from its beginning. The dialogue was both passionate and dramatic with it's dark suspense. Strong characters...strong plot-line...no loose threads, no holes. Ms. Pennacchi delivered a profound and thought provoking piece of work, and though hard to read at times...it was worth the journey.

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Mema55

Beautiful and painful :(

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 1, 2022

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I really enjoyed the writing and story line in this book. There were several poignant and meaningful quotes throughout the books that made my heart ache. Lots of real emotions and frightening situations that you can’t help turning the pages to find out how the hell this could be happening and what will become of these tortured characters. Definitely with a read.

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Sumi

Great book, but incomplete storyline

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 5, 2022

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Spoilers ahead...read at your own risk!!

First of all, this is not for every reader. It is a very dark romance with Lots of noncon and dubcon scenes. I think all of them! Only folks who like non-con scenes will appreciate this.
There are couple of domestic violence scenes, where he deliberately hurts her. Those were hard to read.

Having said that, the emotions and atmosphere of regency times is beautifully presented. Some word choices are not accurate for the time period and do detract from overall experience, but overall a great book.

MINUS 2 stars for not finishing the revenge storyline with his dad. What happens next? Does H decide to let his revenge go? His dad is now richer than ever! Those poor farmers! Arrgh! I understand that romance between side characters belongs to another book, but the revenge plot was central to this storyline! All Christopher talked about was his revenge! Incomplete story arcs are really annoying. Also, no epilogue :-(

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DarkLady

This is NOT a sugared version of a tortured hero seeking revenge and with the heroine's love he becomes...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 24, 2016

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...a completly new man, lovely and adorable.

NO.

If you want to read the story of a tortured man who is born and lives appalling circumstances, but when he meets the heroine falls madly in love, behaves like a gentleman and forgets his desire for revenge, changing radically because of love ... You better looks elsewhere.

***SPOILERS***

This is the version of an antihero who has a horrible past with lurid events that marked his perception of the world. And Anna has the misfortune to cross his path and humiliate him (an unpardonable offense from the point of view of Christopher). So it begins an slightly tug-of-war, where Anna in her innocence believes there will be no serious consequences, but Christopher is a man who has no scruples to manipulate, deceive, be cruel, selfish; ruining and passing over whatever necessary (including Anna itself) just to get revenge.

Christopher lacks deep emotional understanding, because during much of the book he is unable to comprehend it was experienced and developing noble feelings (including his—already existing—brotherly love toward his cousin Matt, or the passional love he has for Anna or the protective love he has toward her family, or the craving and needs than Anna's warm, loving family enviroment fulfil in him. Along with the selfless desire to help them), probably because his negative emotions (such as hate toward his father, resentment and envy toward his half-brother Daniel, its vivid desire to avenge his mother, the shame, humilliation and intense rage toward his own circumstances at birth and during his childhood) surpasses him.

The rape scene is negatively and frightfully shocking, but subsequently the scene when, after they married, Christopher tricked Anna and makes love to she is equally shocking (but in a positive sense), because in his own way he is trying to "efface" the horrific sexual violence he had previously inflicted toward her, and much to his way, he shows patience and some kind of sweet consideration that until then seemed unable to possess. Maybe, at that moment, he began his way into redemption—or not—: It is open to interpretation, because a person emotionally so damaged like him hardly could change its ways from one moment to another (especially because at that time there weren't psychiatrists or psychologists to help him), so it has to be an slower and tortuous process. And in that regard the writer keeps coherent and consistent in the evolution from the male character.

***END SPOILERS***

The author tries to give us a dark romance with elements of historical realism and as such should be understood. At the time period this book takes place women were considered the property of men, incapables to exercise own sexual and personal self-determination or minimal autonomy. A sexual attack (with or without violence) had serious social consequences for the woman, because always she was to blame, was ruined and shunned after all her ordeal, even if the man was sentenced for rape.

This book is NOT like one of the hundreds of thousand of historical romances cluttering the current romantic novel market. So much of those books are poorly and lazy written, ludicrously anachronistic, inaccurate, lacking in character development, minimal plot and basic research. Most of those books are immediately forgotten, because they drown in the disposable rosy sea of the romantic and euphemistic fluffiness than has become the "historical" romantic books from todays.

But not this one.

A recommended reading, without a doubt.

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Lemonade

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 31, 2023

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What a wonderfully moving story. Great plot. I loved how much empathy I had for the villian/hero of the story, not to mention sympathy for him at the end. Not a read for the feint hearted. Anna was a definite ball buster. Great read.

Deepstrz

Couldn't put it down

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 14, 2021

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Hope more of the authors book get translated. Great read, I couldn't stop reading. Finished it all in one sitting
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Farheen Hussain

Unexpectedly brutal warm endearing real sad beautiful

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on June 19, 2021

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I heard the rape scene would be very brutal but when I read his inner voice “I will not let them take you from me” his desperate plea to keep her through wrong means.. I didn’t find the scene brutal, just sad for her. I’ve read worse humiliating disrespectful acts of sex.

Plot twists.. dear god! I was surprised.

The way he makes love, his words of endearment had me swooning for him. Classic scene I ever read.

The style of writing is new and interesting. His inner voice and what he actually speaks out are soo contradicting, made it pretty unpredictable and exciting.

I didn’t like that he made/forced her to dance with another man who was sleazy slimy and sick to the core. I loved that she broke up with him after. I loved her she was pretty strong willed despite her circumstances. Her head held high. She was strong and inspiring.

I could understand him being a male chauvinist sometimes because this is a historical. Fine, I get it.

The villain was like the cruelest villain I have ever read.

Not a 5 star because he disrespected her by forcing her to apologize to the slimy bastard and he didn’t attend her dads funeral.

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Kindle Customer

Why leave the story hanging like that?

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on August 7, 2021

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I could not put the book down. I kept reading because I wanted to know how it ends. Does Christopher get his revenge? Does he win over Anna? How does he compensate for all that he has done to her?
Unfortunately, I kept reading and the book ended and nothing happens. None of the above. No revenge. No grovel. Nada. He does nothing to woo Anna.
I hope there is a book 2 that resolves everything but it doesn't seem so.

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Am

I understand the low ratings now

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 20, 2020

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Beautifully written, interesting book with a strong willed heroine and unapologetically villainous hero. This does contain a HEA but it lacked closure with the smaller plot points and also was scarce in the romance sense. If you’re looking for a super romantic book, with yummy sex, give this a pass. But if you want an engaging, dark historical romance (with a romance element, albeit messed up) then this is for you.

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