All About Passion (Cynster Book 7)

I was so looking forward to read Chillington's story and see him fall...and I was not disappointed!!!😈😈😈 we have been introduced to Chillington since the first book on this series and we have see him help and taunt the Bar Cynster members. Unlike his counterparts, he was determined to marry for convenience expecting to marry a quiet and pliant woman. Unfortunately for him 😈 fates has other plans and he ends up marrying the wrong woman and she neither timid of obedient 😉🤣 Hold on to your seats because Giles is in for a rocky ride. Very entertaining read, another keeper. Highly recommended

This historical romance, set in 1820 just after the Prince Regent had finally ascended to the throne, fits into the author's "Bar Cynster" series. The hero, Gyles Rawlings (Earl of Chillingworth) is a friend of the Cynster family and appears as a minor character in earlier books of the series such as " Devil's Bride (Bar Cynster) " and " A Secret Love (Bar Cynster) ", and has even been elected by Devil Cynster (the duke of St Ives and head of the Cynster family) and his cousins as an "Honorary Cynster."In the bible, Jacob had lost his heart to his patron's beautiful younger daughter Rachel and asked for her hand in marriage, but found when his bride lifted her veil that instead of the woman who stirred his blood he had been given instead her sister Leah. This is a story of a man who finds himself in exactly the opposite position ...In this book Gyles Rawlings has seen all his Cynster friends and fellow rakes smitten by, and marry for love: and finding that he needs a bride, is determined not to go the same way. He wants a calm, placid marriage which will not interfere with his other pursuits.So the Earl goes to a distant cousin who is the guardian of a young niece and has a daughter the same age, and negotiates for the hand of one of the two ladies concerned. One of the cousins appears to be calm and placid, well behaved and reasonably good looking without being a great beauty. The other is a fiery, tempestuous and voluptuous beauty who sets his pulse racing. Wanting a docile wife rather than a passionate marriage, Chillingworth offers for the former - or so he thinks.However - and I'm not giving away anything here which isn't clearly stated on the back of the book - Gyles has offered for the wrong woman. Through a series of ironic chances he does not get formally introduced to either girl before the wedding and misjudges which is which. Having thought he was offering for the placid girl who doesn't set him on fire, he looks around as his bride is coming up the aisle - to see the girl he thought he was marrying sitting in the front row while the girl who drives him mad with desire is the bride who is taking her place beside him. And she's absolutely furious ...Ridiculously unlikely but highly amusing and entertaining. One of Stephanie Laurens' better books. Devil's Bride (Bar Cynster)A Secret Love (Bar Cynster)

This is actually one of the few Cynster novels I've read; for some reason I've been avoiding them. There's already a good synopsis and a detailed review by another reader.So here you have an honorary Cynster, Gyles Rawlings, who because of his father's early death does not trust love, as it breaks hearts. Gyles therefore decides to make a marriage of convenience with a distant Rawlings cousin who owns a peice of land that once belonged to his estate. He wants a quiet, biddable, nonentity of a wife, who will be content to allow him to get on with his own life and have affairs. He spots who he thinks is his future wife sitting in the gardens of her uncle's home and is content. However, he is immediately and passionately attracted to a young lady who he thinks is his future wife's companion and thanks heaven's that it is not she whom he is marrying, although he is not adverse to making her his mistress. However, due to his decision not to meet his fiance until the actual wedding, it is only then that he discovers that the 'companion' is in fact his about to be wife. He also finds out that Frannie, his wife's cousin, who was the girl he thought he was getting, is somewhat strange and thanks his lucky stars that she was not his bride. Frannie is described as "simple" and "difficult".Francesca, his wife, knows that Gyles is holding back his heart from her,so sets out to win it. I've put "...obviously predictable" in my title, because we all know with this type of novel that boy gets girl/girl gets boy in the end, so it has to end happily.However, as one reader mentions, there is a murder plot and yes the villan is predictably stereotyped. I would question, however, whether in real life this type of person would be able to think through all the ins and outs of the murder attempts; particularly in hiring thugs. How did this person know that Francesca would be visiting that particular person on that particular road at that time? It stretches the imagination somewhat.Still, its a pleasant easy read.

I have read the cynster series so far and when I read the sample and proceeded to pay for this book I was Shocked at the price £7.50 !!! I have read hundreds of books in this genre because that is all I read Recency.... I have never been more disappointed and struggled to finish it I found it boring and seemed to take forever to get to the end which was the best bit, sorry I have never given such a low star rating but feel robbed at paying the price I did for a book I felt could have been wrote with 200 pages less

Chilling worth didn't want to marry this particular lady, but he wanted the land which came with her dowry. Strange happenings begin to happen which cause him concern poisoning, possessions going missing, tripping hazards etc. Who is trying to kill his wife and why? Great book packed with drama a must read