Evangeline sees visions when she touches people skin to skin and uses her talent for helping people to find lost items. This talent, or curse as she thinks of it since she can’t hope to marry anyone if she has visions every time she’s touched, might help find who murdered one of the guests the first night of the house party. Nearly every house guest has a motive, and all have lied about their whereabouts as Evangeline finds out with incidental touches here and there. And then there’s the arousing passion developing between Evangeline and Gavin.

 

Erica Ridley has written a wonderful historical intrigue and romance with TOO WICKED TO KISS. She delivers a terrific environment in Blackberry Manor, a large, ominous mansion complete with myriad twisting hallways, and hidden entrances from most rooms to secret corridors allowing covert movement within the walls. The bold and intelligent Evangeline and the persecuted Gavin are just two of the motley crew of characters Ridley gives readers. Add in the haughty Lady Stanton who will do anything to see her daughter married to Gavin; the feather-brained and socially outcast daughter, Susan; Rose, Gavin’s sister who has recently come back into his life; her husband, an earl who hit his wife before dinner the night he was murdered just to name a few. Ridley combines snappy dialogue, passionate scenes and a dead body to move the story along at a swift pace. And, of course, she includes the necessary misunderstandings that keep every wonderful romance pulsing with vitality. If this debut is a sign of books to come, then I hope Ridley has a prolific career. This one is a gem!

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