TITLE: A Deal with the Devil
AUTHOR: Alyxandra Harvey
SERIES: The Spinster Society
SERIES ORDER: 2 of ???
RELEASE DATE: 1/16/2025
GENRE: Regency Romance
RATING: ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
SPICE LEVEL: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ (5+ descriptive sex scenes)
CONTENT WARNING: Mild violence
BLURB:
When you steal from the Devil, getting burned is half the fun!
When Kitty’s gambler father sells her sister into marriage to a notoriously cruel lord with three dead wives, Kitty will do anything to stop it. Including steal from the Devil himself.
What else is a bookseller to do? Kitty's talents include giving literary tours of London and selling scandalous novels. If she has to find a murderer, she's going to need all of the help she can get. Even if Devil is as disreputable and handsome as…well… the devil.
The earl created an empire for himself based on collecting debt vowels. Fortunes, inheritances, secrets… anything is fair game. No one crosses him.
Until Kitty.
She steals a vowel right from his pocket—and uses it to blackmail him into helping her save her sister. But no one steals from the Devil and gets away with it.
People beg for his mercy, his attention—anything he is willing to give. He might enjoy having Kitty beg. Even if he already knows she’d rather punch him in the eye. It only makes her more tempting. Irritating. Perfect.
Sometimes it takes both a Devil and a Spinster to stop a murderer…
MY REVIEW:
DISCLAIMER: I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
This book is hands down my favorite Regency Romance I’ve read. I loved this story so much!
I adored the main characters. Kitty’s strength, tenacity and loyalty to her sister shines throughout the whole book and her inner (and outer) monologues had me dying with laughter! Devil… I want to marry that man! He’s built a reputation of being ruthless and feared; but with Kitty, he would hang the stars for her, and threaten those who dare treat her with disrespect!
I loved their banter! I loved how protective of Kitty, Devil was. I really liked the side characters we meet in this story and wonder if we will see them again in future books.
Alyxandra wove an incredible story with A Deal with the Devil that was fun, spicy and filled with intrigue! I can’t wait to read more from her! I will definitely be reading her other Regency Romance books, including the first book in The Spinster Society, as I anxiously await the next!
Even though this is the second book in The Spinster Society series, you can definitely read this one without having read the first.
Thank you NetGalley and Dragonblade Publishing for the advance copy!