Too Great a Temptation by Alexandra Benedict

They have a ship that is headed towards England, and with Hawkins feeling indebted to Damian, they are willing to take him along, especially when he fibs that he’s a good navigator. When he tries to rescue a young lad from some thugs on the street and learns that this young man, he ends up getting acquainted with Hawkins brothers. However, clearly lacking the brainpower to put together a plan, he ends up penniless and looking for a way back to England where he can recover his losses and come up with another, er, plan. So he runs off to America to locate and presumably tear apart the pirates that sank the ship that Adam was on with his bare hands. His mother understandably wishes that Damian is the one at the bottom of the sea rather than the more responsible Adam, and drives the blade of guilt deeper into Damian’s heart by revealing that it is she who summoned Adam home from America because she had begged Adam to come talk some sense into Damian.ĭamian decides to not just sober up, he also wants revenge. Worse, the news only reach him long after the tragic event happened because he was too busy partying to care, and even then, he learns of the news because he rushes to his mother to tell her off for daring to interrupt his revelries with her pesky summons. The “Duke of Rogues” is forcefully made to become sober when his brother Adam is lost at sea.

Our hero Damian Westmore won’t win any awards for amazing brainpower, but a lifetime of constant inebriation and skanky sex can do that to a person, I hear. There are some noticeable rough edges here and there, but the star of the show, so to speak, is definitely the author’s bouncy and infectious humor. Too Great a Temptation is a fun seafaring-style romantic adventure story that brings to mind some of Marsha Canham’s most enjoyable stories. Too Great a Temptation by Alexandra Benedict