ARC Review: The Devil in Her Bed (Devil You Know #3) by Kerrigan Byrne
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Series: Devil You Know #3
Author: Kerrigan Byrne
Published March 9th 2021 by St. Martin's Paperbacks
Goodreads Synopsis
He lives in secret service to the Crown—a man of duty, deception, and an undeniable attraction to a woman who threatens to tear his whole world apart.
They call him the Devil of Dorset. He stands alone, a man of undeniable power. Moving in and out of shadows, back alleys and ballrooms, he is unstoppable and one of the Crown’s most dangerous weapons. However, when he sets his sights on the undeniably beautiful Countess of Mont Claire, Francesca Cavendish, he doesn’t realize that he has met a match like no other.
TRUE LOVE WEARS NO DISGUISE
Francesca is a countess by day and stalks her prey—those responsible for the death of her family—by night. What she does not expect is to be thrown into the path of the devil himself, the Earl of Devlin. She has secrets of her own and he seems determined to lay them bare. Can her heart survive finding the love of her life and losing him when all is revealed?
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.
Lady Francesca Cavendish, the Countess of Mont Claire, is not who she appears to be. Purported to be the sole survivor of the Mont Claire massacre years ago, she is actually Pippa Hargreaves, the daughter of the butler and cook, and best friend to the slain Francesca. Thinking she was the only person who came out of the estate alive, she took on her friend's identity to help her gain revenge, and make those who slaughtered everyone she loved, including her friend and crush Declan Chandler, pay. She's growing closer to finding out just who, alongside the disgraced Lord Chancellor, are in the Triad, ruling over the Crimson Council, when a mysterious man comes into her life. He seems to know a lot about Francesca - the real Francesca, and is a ghost, working with the Secret Service to take down the Crimson Council himself, and he won't let anyone, not even someone he's attracted to as much as he is Francesca, get in his way.
I've been so intrigued by Francesca's revenge since she revealed the truth about herself right back at the start of book 1. She may appear to be a countess, but she cares only for her fellow Red Rogues, Cecelia and Alexandra, and making those who killed her family suffer. To the rest of society, she appears to be a scandalous spinster, sleeping with many a man who later has his downfall, but really she drugs them, discovers their secrets, and flees without ever touching them. The more men she seduces, the closer she gets to the truth, and it seems that the Earl of Devlin may be the key to it all. But then the mysterious 'Marquess Drake', a man of many faces, identities and accents, who intrigues her and she may just lose herself to. I don't want to spoil anything about who he was, but I guessed early enough, and the truth about his parentage, but the whole back and forth between our couple was phenomenal. I don't like their romance as much as I had Alex and Piers, or Cecilia and Ramsay's, but still it was an epic read. What made the whole story even more enjoyable was the family aspect that ran through it all, with Piers and Ramsay being pseudo-brother like figures to Francesca, and the five of them all being there for each other, even when it was dangerous. Solving the puzzle of the Crimson Council, and just why the Mont Claire estate was attacked and razed all those years ago was extremely well written, with twists and turns that kept me hooked, and forced me to read the book all in one sitting, without putting it down until I discovered if all our favourites survived, and had their HEA. A really fantastic ending to the entire series - I can't wait for Kerrigan's next story.
Dates Read:
January 19, 2021
Rating
4 Stars
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