SOME LIKE IT WICKED

Author: Teresa Medeiros ISBN: 9780061235351 8/2008 HISTORICAL Publisher: AVON
Time Period: Regency 1810

Some like it dangerous . . . Highland beauty Catriona Kincaid cares nothing for propriety—or even her own safety—when she storms the grounds of Newgate Prison. Determined to return to Scotland and restore her clan's honor, she seeks the help of Sir Simon Wescott, a disgraced nobleman and notorious rogue. She is prepared to offer him both wealth and freedom, but she never dreams the wicked rake will be bold enough to demand a far more sensual prize. Some like it seductive . . . Simon is shocked to discover the tomboy he met long ago has blossomed into a headstrong temptress. Although he's sworn off his dreams of becoming a hero, he can't resist playing knight errant to Catriona's damsel in distress. Both adventure and peril await them at her Highland home, where they will risk their lives to vanquish her enemies . . . and risk their hearts to discover a passion beyond their wildest dreams.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Lordy, Lordy, I have waited for a new Teresa Medeiros book for what seems like forever! She is always an auto-buy author for me and I could just kiss the person who introduced me to her work years ago! I waited very patiently for SOME LIKE IT WICKED, and I am stoked that it was everything I had hoped for, and more!

The first real emotion that hits you when you open the book is compassion for Catriona—beautiful, down-on-her-luck Catriona who is forced to live with awful relatives after her parents die. Her cousin hates her and her uncle acts as though he cannot stand her. She is wild and free just like her beloved Highlands and no one understands her. When one day she literally falls on the back of a gorgeous military man in her stable, her life suddenly and quite abruptly changes forever. She dreams that this is the man who will one day take her back to claim her family's lands and restore her to her rightful place in Scotland. She idealizes him and dreams of him for years, only to find out that he is not at all the man that she thought.

Having had enough of playing the hero, Simon Wescott allows himself and his good name to be disgraced and dragged through the mud and doesn't really give a hoot about any of it. He is locked up in Newgate until one day, a beautiful blast from his past shows up with the answers to all of his problems—money. She offers him money and all of his debts to be cleared if he can help her get out of her uncle's home and back to the Highlands where she knows she will find her long lost brother. It is an act of utter desperation for the proud, beautiful Catriona, and Simon knows that. Yet he cannot seem to refuse anything this woman asks of him.

I just love Teresa Medeiros' style of writing. SOME LIKE IT WICKED is fluent and action packed, the romance is top shelf, the sex scenes are steamy and the secondary characters could all play a starring role in their own books. There is nothing better than sitting down to read a book that hits all of the marks, and Teresa Medeiros has proven once again that she is the author that can make this happen.

Kristal Gorman