Book 3 in The Maiden Lane Series
After being forced to spend the night in the house of notorious river pirate, Mickey O’Connor, in book one, widow, Silence Hollingbrook, once again enters the lion’s den when one of her charges is kidnapped.
Mickey admits the child is his, and as such she is in danger. He will not allow her to leave. Silence stays to care for the child despite the fact that the last time she was in Mickey’s company her reputation, and her marriage, was ruined.
Silence sums up her situation:
“She’d placed herself entirely in the power of an evil man – a man whose only use for women was to have them ‘entertain’ him.”
This novel had a different feel to the previous one. That one was all heat and tension throughout, while this one was more of a slow building simmer that really boils at the end. I expected Mickey to be a seductive and uncaring charmer, but in fact he treats Silence with the greatest respect. He behaved better than other gentleman in the previous novels.
The ending is brimming with action and the epilogue is such a great hook that I can’t wait to move on to the next in the series.
Plot: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Feels: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Heat: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
