Book Alert: Passion for the Game by Sylvia Day **May 29, 2007**
May 10, 2007
Passion for the Game by Sylvia Day
For the notorious Lady Winter, seduction and duplicity are required to survive. Cunning and precision are the tools of pirate Christopher St. John. Pitted against one another, they are a surprise waiting to happen...
Set A Criminal To Catch A Criminal
Christopher St. John and Maria, Lady Winter, are infamous in Society for their misdeeds and their charming allures. Wherever they go, scandalized whispers and covetous glances follow. A ruthless pirate and a widow whose two husbands have met untimely deaths, the wickedly renowned figures are even more intriguing to the authorities. Now they've been set on the most provocative of tasks St. John is released from prison to learn the "Wintry Widow's" intimate secrets, while Lady Winter is charged with performing a similar deception in reverse. One will succeed. One will hang.
From Ballroom To Bedroom, They're Perfectly Matched
With the fate of loved ones in the balance, the unlikely couple embarks upon a battle of wills and wits that takes them from glittering ballrooms to the depths of the underworld to the candlelit pleasures of the bedroom. As they fall helpless to a desire and startling affinity neither expected, the deadly web of their subterfuge closes in, forcing them to make a choice. Individual freedom? Or an audacious scheme to keep an impossible yet irresistible love...
Passion for the Game is the follow up for Ask for It. Many people loved Asked for It and quite a few were not impressed. I fell somewhere in the middle, I also fell in love with St. John.
I seem to enjoy seeing a villain get reformed or seeing IF a villain can be made into a hero. I can't wait to see if this one can. You can get a taste of the book in the excerpt here.
Ask For It by Sylvia Day
July 4, 2006
I just finished this, it was much better than I expected. I had a couple of issues with it but not really with the 'spy' part. Shall post more on it later, now to figure out where I put From London with Love.
Sylvia Day is an author I found on the net, I bookmarked her site and thought I will read someday. It was Alyssa's book reviews that decided someday was now. As I scoped out her ebooks and coming soon I saw a blurb for Ask For It. It said historical, I was so there. She lost me in the first few sentences.
Summary from site:
England, 1770. Beneath the silk and lace of London society lies a secret, elite organization of spies. Protecting the Crown from its enemies is hazardous, but for Marcus Ashford, protecting his heart from an unyielding passion is the far greater peril...A MATTER OF DANGEROUS INTRIGUE...
As an agent to the Crown, Marcus Ashford, the Earl of Westfield, has fought numerous sword fights, been shot twice, and dodged more than any man's fair share of cannon fire. And yet nothing excites him more than the primitive hunger his former fiance, Elizabeth, arouses. Years ago, she'd jilted him for the boyishly charming Lord Hawthorne. But now, the elegant widow is his to defend, and he will do so while tending to her other, more carnal needs, showing her the depth of a real man's desire...
...AND UNDENIABLE PLEASURE
Dangerous secrets led to the murder of Lady Hawthorne's husband. Secrets she now holds in a diary many would kill to obtain. But to entrust herself to the protection of the most seductive man she's ever known? Outrageous. Unthinkable. Irresistible. For it was Marcus's strong passions and burning desire that frightened her into abandoning him years ago-and her answering craving has never waned. Now, he means to be at her service, in every sense. And perhaps the only sensible course isn't to resist temptation, but to surrender to it completely...
She said spies. I backed out and went and read something else. Which worked well since it wasn't out yet, in fact this is also an August release. But her ebooks led me to really want Bad Boys Ahoy! After I read BBA!, I found myself back at the coming soon site. Around this point I emailed her and just flat out
said - WHY SPIES! I think I was nicer than that but uh maybe not. She emailed back and said something like - really it isn't about spies or spy clubs but it is more focused on the characters. So back to the site I went and there was an excerpt. So I gave in to my try not to read excerpt because it isn't good for my OCD rule and cause I am getting an ARC.
The excerpt is great and if the book is focused more on the H/H then score. I love character driven stories.
So that led me to start thinking more on why my reaction to spies is ICK. I love Bradley's series and do like the Royal Four (wasn't as happy with the last but that is another post).
And Ask For It is even... say it isn't so... a stand alone. So adding that to Jenna's post why spies? Are they done... if so... why do authors keep doing them?
Tags: Ask For It, Brava, Kensington, Sylvia DayBook Alert: Ask For It by Sylvia Day
April 26, 2006
Ask For It by Sylvia Day is mine mine mine. WOOT! The ARC has arrived!
hee now to see if the spies work for me 
England, 1770. Beneath the silk and lace of London society lies a secret, elite organization of spies. Protecting the Crown from its enemies is hazardous, but for Marcus Ashford, protecting his heart from an unyielding passion is the far greater peril...
A MATTER OF DANGEROUS INTRIGUE...
As an agent to the Crown, Marcus Ashford, the Earl of Westfield, has fought numerous sword fights, been shot twice, and dodged more than any man's fair share of cannon fire. And yet nothing excites him more than the primitive hunger his former fiance, Elizabeth, arouses. Years ago, she'd jilted him for the boyishly charming Lord Hawthorne. But now, the elegant widow is his to defend, and he will do so while tending to her other, more carnal needs, showing her the depth of a real man's desire...
...AND UNDENIABLE PLEASURE
Dangerous secrets led to the murder of Lady Hawthorne's husband. Secrets she now holds in a diary many would kill to obtain. But to entrust herself to the protection of the most seductive man she's ever known? Outrageous. Unthinkable. Irresistible. For it was Marcus's strong passions and burning desire that frightened her into abandoning him years ago-and her answering craving has never waned. Now, he means to be at her service, in every sense. And perhaps the only sensible course isn't to resist temptation, but to surrender to it completely...
read the excerpt
Tags: Ask For It, Book Alert, Brava, Spies, Sylvia Day
