The sexual part, especially: I saw the potential for it in her from the beginning. In a way, it might have been because I'd read the spoilers, but I looked at her very closely from the start, and both felt very appropriate to her personality to me. There was much talk about how people couldn't buy her behaviour in the bedroom and in the boardroom, so to speak, her being so adept at political intrigue. I remembered much of the criticism it had received, and though I see where other readers might feel in those ways, what bothered many people I worked wonderfully for me. I started reading it already knowing much of what would happen, since I can't resist spoilers and the discussions about the book last year were long and detailed. Shadowheart was just as incredible as FMLH, an A.

Only she can solidify his claim.but the dark passion that grows between them is more dangerous than any treachery mortal men could devise. And the perfect tool has just fallen into his hands, in the lovely form of Lady Elena-the long-lost Monteverde princess. Now, he is a charismatic, dangerous man who will stop at nothing to regain his rightful place in the rich Italian principality of Monteverde. Readers were first introduced to Allegreto, the elegant assassin, in For My Lady's Heart.

I've had Shadowheart ( excerpt) since not long afterwards, waiting for the right moment to read it. But then I read My Sweet Folly and loved it, so I dared read FMLH and I thought it amazing. I hadn't liked the only Kinsale I'd read until last year, the much beloved Flowers From the Storm, so I had thought this author was not for me. I read Laura Kinsale's For My Lady's Heart last year and it was a revelation.

Shadowheart by laura kinsale