The Pursuits of Lord Kit Cavanaugh: A Historical Romance (The Cavanaughs, 2)

This book starts shortly after the ending of the previous book, The Designs of Lord Randolph Cavanaugh Lord Kit Cavanaugh has moved to Bristol to start a new venture, Cavanaugh Yachts. He has rented a warehouse and plans to open shop immediately along with his friend and business partner Wayland. They want to take occupancy immediately, but learn a charity has been using it and they need a few days to vacate.Sylvia Buckleberry learns from the officers of the Dock Company that they have rented the warehouse that she uses for a school and that she must vacate immediately. She knew that it was a possibly that they would lose the space, but with the decline in shipbuilding, she never really thought it would happen. She tries to find another space for the school, but as they haven't the money in the budget for rent, she is faced with the real possibility of having to close. She is upset and barges into Kit's office and rages at him. Kit is stunned and intrigued, the Sylvia he met at his brother Rand's wedding was an ice queen and nothing like this fiery woman. He waits until she is finished with her rant and offers to help find another place for the school - even offering to pay the rent. Sylvia is surprised, she has always harbored a secret crush for Kit, but his reputation was one of a rake and she refused to fall prey and kept her distance from him. But this Kit is nothing like the rumors she heard and she wonders if she misjudged him. They work together and find a place for the school and Kit goes about setting up his new business, but he is drawn to Sylvia and makes excuses to see her.When the school is threatened, Kit immediately comes to her aid and when someone sabotages his workshop, he wonders if the events are related and vows to protect Sylvia. They again work together to find the villain or villains and a bond develops between them. Kit decides that Sylvia is the woman for him, but needs to take things slowly. Sylvia finds herself falling for Kit all over again, but doesn't know if he feels the same and is not sure if she can trust her instincts as they were so wrong before. But when Sylvia's life is in peril, nothing will stop Kit from saving the woman he loves and he will prove once and for all that she is meant for him.The ending is fantastic and I liked that Kit was determined to win Sylvia honorably, but a bit more steam would not have been amiss. This was a good story, but it was wordy, dragged a bit and some of it was down-right dull and boring, add to that the misuse of his honorific (which happened in the last book as well) and this was a fair to middling story at best, good but just not great. This is the second book in the Cavanaugh series, but it could easily be read as standalone title.

This book starts out with hero and heroine not really liking each other based on impressions during the wedding of hero's brother's wedding! BUT from then on--this book draws you in and you are "hooked"!This author has the perfect touch of sensual with out details I really don't need or want! Her tempo is perfect and the characters (even villain) is drawn in perfect detail!I loved this book and it was a relief to find a book by an adult established author to read with no silly grammar or actions that would NOT have been acceptable in this period of time.I have either in paperback or E-book every book by this author and love her dearly for all the work put into each novel!

Kit Cavanaugh has come to Bristol to found a shipyard that will build yachts. He immediately runs into a roadblock when the warehouse he wants is used as a school by Sylvia Buckleberry. He and Sylvia know each other from the wedding of his brother and it wasn't an auspicious meeting. Still, they work things out and Kit finds excuses to spend more time with Sylvia as well as getting his business going.This was an okay romance. The story was more about shipbuilding and life in Victorian Bristol than the interactions between Sylvia and Kit who mostly run errands together. The villain in the end (not to give anything away) turned out to be a bit silly with a real Snidely Whiplash vibe. I'm kind of hit or miss with Ms. Laurens and this one leans more toward a miss.

This book was fantastic. The story moves along quickly with a hopeful tone. The storyline is both action and character oriented, but the characters are the strongest recommendation of this story. Kit is finally coming into his own, after the horrors of his mother's machinations. He has no plans of doing more than building superior yachts, until a fire-breathing lady takes him and his new business to task for setting her school out on the streets! There are lots of twists and turns and a good many surprises. There were a few mildly steamy scenes, but not until over halfway through the story. You want to at least read book one, about Lord Randolph, before this. But I really think you should also read The Taming of Ryder Cavanaugh before either of these. I can't wait to see the next story, which I think will be the sister Stacie. Enjoy!

Lauren's continues to expand her Cynster universe with another gem. Weaving the social upheaval caused by the switch from wooden wind powered ships to iron steam powered ships into a love story about an aristocrat who wants to build wooden yachts and a minister's daughter who wants to educate the children of displaced workers sounds like an impossible task, but she pulls it off.

This book is meh. I read a lot and love Laurens" works, but this book had some issues, imo. The story of Kit and Sylvia never really developed for me. The just met again and each decided the wanted the other. Their interactions were a mere business transaction, not a love story. It was quite perfunctory and lacked the development of a loving interaction/relationship between the two. More distracting was some of the grammar. This book was riddled with grammatical errors - fragments, incomplete sentences, etc.-that distracted from the story. The story itself felt thrown together and somewhat incomplete or lacking. I usually love her books but this one was a miss for me.

First let me say WOW! Stephanie's knowledge or research on 3 very different topics in this series blew me away! I LEARNED as well as enjoying the story! Each and every book was different and the information was amazing! The stories were also great and I will be reading more and more of Stephanie's books......I know I have read her books before.....buth this series has hooked me on Stephanie Laurens!

Stories like this one have rekindled my love of historical romance in recent months. For this PNR girl, that’s saying something. As one friend put it:“Who are you? And what have you done with the real Laura?”*snorts*I was a newbie to the series and to Stephanie Lauren’s work *hangs head in shame* And, although this is Volume 2 in the series, it can easily be read as a standalone. You all know how nosey I am by now, so it’ll come as no great surprise when I tell you I’ve already downloaded Volume 1. What can I say? I have some pesky unrelated-to-this-story questions I need answers to.I really loved Kit. Once he sets his mind to something, he is steadfast in his aim. He’s determined his new business venture will be a success. He is also passionate and giving. More so than he’d like folks to realise. Kit have a heart? Pfft, perish the thought *smirks* Added to which, his inherent protectiveness for those he cares about *sighs* - yup, I was a goner.And whether prickly (she’s really not!) Miss Sylvia Buckleberry likes it or not, Kit is beginning to care a whole lot *sighs* (yes, again!) about her. I’d like to think I’d have been a bit like Sylvia if I had been around then. Standing up for what’s right and helping to improve the lives of others.“Sometimes, in order to seize the good things in life, you just have to have faith and make a start.”Together this pair are unstoppable force. And when danger lurks, two heads are most definitely better than one.This book was such an easy read. The author’s writing swept me away enveloping me in the burgeoning romance and nail-biting suspense. I experienced it all. I love to be surprised and I never would’ve guessed.Guessed what? – you say.Now that would be telling... *winks*Happy reading. Go on, you know you want to.

This is a really engrossing book. The narrative is centred round the running of a school for poor boys in Bristol, and the setting up of a ship-building business for yachts. It sits well in time and place. The maritime centre of Bristol was switching to producing iron- hulled ships from the previous method of building wooden ships. Many shipwrights were laid off , but yachts , built from teak or oak, still required their expertise. With all this going on S.L. does not indulge her predilection for sexy interludes or soul-searching. There is mild skulduggery, not so pathetic orphaned boys and a suitably loony villain. but the biggest surprise the ending. The hero decides that they will wait till their marriage until their union is consummated. Perhaps she has finally realised that this was the norm right up to the 1960s and finally seen the light!

Limp and tame. There was more about building yachts than anything else. Endless stuff about hiring staff and moving furniture. Two vaguely romantic moments but it was more like a business transaction. No sense of atmosphere and cardboard cut out characters. Since when was being “a clergyman’s daughter” enough to describe a character? And Kit, dull, worthy smug Kit who was described as “rakish” but was two dimensional and ordinary. Oh, and smug. These books are really not worth her name on them. If she wanted to write about yachts it should be advertised as such. Dull and the sort of thing your maiden aunt would have read in 1920; not an historical novel published for readers in 2020.

This is the third book in the Cavanaugh series. He is a renown take trying to find purpose in his life by setting up a business in the docks. She is spinster who runs a school. Can they trust each other to love fighting their demons both from the past and real

Very interesting view of Bristol in that era and the living condition changes due to the rise of steam engines. This is entwined with a love story as the plot twists and turns. I highly recommend this author