The Highwayman
RECOMMENDED: The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and so far, it isn’t being price-matched. Redheadedgirl grabbed this at RT 2015 when it was held in Dallas. She reviewed it and gave it an A-:
What I liked best about this book was the liberal use of crazysauce. It’s a melodramatic tale of a broken man healed by the love of a good woman, and the good woman that’s strong enough to love this man and bring him back into the world. When he proposed the marriage idea, she’s like “Fine, but I want a baby so that’s my condition,” and he’s like, “but I don’t touch people so I didn’t really think this through,” “fine, then I’ll take a lover.” “I. WILL. KILL. HIM….”
“That’s not very solution-oriented.” (Actual quote!)
They’re rebels, scoundrels, and blackguards-dark, dashing men on the wrong side of the law. But for the women who love them, a hint of danger only makes the heart beat faster, in the stunning debut historical romance The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne.
STEALING BEAUTYDorian Blackwell, the Blackheart of Ben More, is a ruthless villain. Scarred and hard-hearted, Dorian is one of Victorian London’s wealthiest, most influential men who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on those who’ve wronged him…and will fight to the death to seize what he wants. The lovely, still innocent widow Farah Leigh Mackenzie is no exception-and soon Dorian whisks the beautiful lass away to his sanctuary in the wild Highlands…
COURTING DESIRE
But Farah is no one’s puppet. She possesses a powerful secret-one that threatens her very life. 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. But what the Blackheart of Ben More never could have imagined is that Farah has terms of her own, igniting a tempestuous desire that consumes them both. Could it be that the woman he captured is the only one who can touch the black heart he’d long thought dead?
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Peak Eighties Crazysauce. I checked the publication date twice while reading it.
Trigger warning: There’s a revenge-rape threat that doesn’t come to fruition because the villain’s dick is broken, and the sample chapter of the next book gets right up to a gang rape of an institutionalized woman before a conveniently timed rescue, so if Woman In Sexual Peril is an upsetting plot device, proceed with caution.
This is one of my favorite tropes. “It’s a melodramatic tale of a broken man healed by the love of a good woman, and the good woman that’s strong enough to love this man and bring him back into the world.” And yeah, I guess I wrote one of those crazysauces back in the day, so this would be right up my alley. Thanks!
“Because the villain’s dick is broken” is my new favorite phrase. Thanks Ren Benton!
If only ALL villains’ dicks were broken….
GOD FLIP FLOPPING DAMMIT!
I clicked this link in my email sub SOLELY for the purpose to post a smart ass comment of “Haha I’m commenting to brag I am NOT reading this post so I will resist the buy button!”
Then I read @Carol S comment.
Then I got curious about broken villain dicks.
Then I read Redheadedgirl’s review except.
Guess who is now mesmerized by the buy button???????????!!!!!!!
The crazysauce is strong in this one but it’s so good. It’s the best of the series even though the hero in the second book is my favorite.
Also to add to what Ren Benton said: all of the books in the series so far have rape, threats of rape or scenes of attempted rape.
@Gigi Oh how I long for the days when rapetasticness will go sky diving sans a parashoot.
I’ve mostly really loved the series—even though every.last.one. is problematic AF—but the most recent one didn’t really do it for me. 🙁 The Highwayman is kinda great though. The crazysauce works in it! (for me, at any rate.)
Rarely do you steer me wrong, especially RHG! But this book I only lasted, I kid you not, four or five pages. I highlighted a sentence as a prime example of how NOT to write a sentence and then on the next page the young hero describes the young heroines ringlets as being MADE OF MOONLIGHT. Nope not willing to go farther! And I learned I just can’t take crazysauce melodrama! Y vey!
@Lindsay BWAHAHAHA Wait wait WAIT! Are we sure our bemooned hair heroine isn’t equipped with an actual moon for a face? Like, WHAT DOES THE EVIDENCE SAY?
Maybe she’s a secret paranormal romance heroine who jumped into a historical because they have prettier dresses! 🙂
Confession: I one-clicked. My favorite line so far: “the tip of his cock wept a tear of yearning.” Really, isn’t that the most elegant description of precum ever crafted by a writer? I DARE YOU TO FIND A BETTER ONE.
@Carol S BWAHAHAHA THAT COMMENT JUST MADE MY WEEK (and that ain’t easy cause this week I’ve been suffering from Norovirus. Pro Tip: Don’t get Norovirus.)
I ain’t never been more poetically pleased by pre-cum in my damn life!
Or an STD.