Charlotte’s innocence is necessary for her character development and makes sense in retrospect however, her naivete was hard to relate to and I found myself skimming forward to the chapters told from other characters’ perspectives. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine was a bit difficult to get into at first the second half of the book was much better. Their efforts to unravel the mystery inevitably lead to something more-just not by the flowery route Charlotte had previously envisioned. Not too surprisingly, she and her fallen knight eventually cross paths. Instead of dreaming about unicorns and marriage, Charlotte is forced to shed her cautious nature and risk her life to save the king. Instead she recruits her friend Henrietta and the two find themselves engaged in a bit of espionage themselves. It’s a secret that Robert would very much like to know but after his seemingly cruel treatment of her he is the last person Charlotte is willing to trust.
Meanwhile Charlotte, who is suffering not only from the loss of Robert but of her girlish illusions as well, soon finds herself privy to a secret that could alter the future of England. Penning a hurried farewell note, he rushes off to an unknown destination-and out of Charlotte’s life. After an intense kiss on Twelfth Night, Robert is forced to choose between his loyalty to his former mentor and his feelings for Charlotte.
Though Robert is increasingly drawn to Charlotte’s innocence, his efforts to obtain justice for Arbuthnot lead him straight to the latest version of the infamous Hellfire Club, a secret brotherhood that engages in mysterious rites and bouts of debauchery. The traitor has returned to England and is now hobnobbing it among the nation’s rich and famous while conspiring with the French to infiltrate the highest levels of government.
Unfortunately Robert has an entirely different agenda: he has sworn to avenge the murder of his mentor and commander, Colonel Arbuthnot, who was shot in the back by one of his own men during a battle in India. So when her very distant cousin Robert Dovedale returns to England after more than a decade spent as an officer in India, it isn’t long before Charlotte begins imagining herself as the heroine in one of her dog-eared romance novels. Lady Charlotte Lansdowne is a bookish 20-year-old who wants to believe in such unlikely things as unicorns and trustworthy men.
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