There are some minor characters that appear who I’ve met in other of Kleypas’ work I enjoy how she has built an entire community.

I don’t know what else to say except he’s the best, and I’ve always enjoyed that name. It’s why we love Sawyer, Eric Northman, Spike, etc. Could care less about you? Check! Sure some/most of us do grow out of it but there is something so attractive about the man who is not good for you at all. I think I’m safe in assuming that we all (at least those of us who swing that way) can’t resist a man like Sebastian. What this may or may not say about me, I don’t know. Who am I kidding though, right? The absolute best part of this whole book is Sebastian. As the novel continues we witness Evie growing increasingly confident in her decisions and feelings and she really starts to become anything BUT a wallflower. She realizes that she can be strong and makes the daring decision to align herself to the most despicable womanizer in London just to escape the violent hatred of her aunt and uncle who may or may not be planning to kill her once her inheritance arrives. Her marriage prospects are dim, as a result, and she has little self-confidence to change this. Evangeline Jenner is painfully shy because of a stutter and not quite part of high society because her father runs a gambling club. I mention this because I know that I don’t have much to compare it to but I found Kleypas’ third Wallflower book delightful and cast with one of the best couples I’ve read yet. I haven’t read that many romances in my life I can count them on two hands I am sure. She agrees to consummate the marriage once to ensure it cannot be annulled, but beyond that, she refuses to become yet another notch in Sebastian’s notorious bedpost. His family’s money problems will be solved and she’ll be protected from her father’s unscrupulous relations. So, she makes a proposal: she will agree to a marriage of convenience with Sebastian. Due to events discussed in another Wallflowers novel, Evie is well aware that Sebastian is desperate to marry a wealthy heiress his father has laid waste to the family coffers. Evangeline (“Evie”) has been ill-treated by her relations who now see her father’s impending death from consumption as an opportunity to force Evie into marrying her corpulent cousin Eustace (I think that’s his name, it’s something Chester-Molester-y like that) so they can control the fortune Evie will inherit as her father’s sole heir.

Vincent one night – UNCHAPERONED – and makes a request Sebastian could never have seen coming. Evangeline Jenner appears on the doorstep of the notorious rake Sebastian St. Lisa Kleypas’ Devil in Winter is the third in a series of books on a group of women who call themselves ‘the Wallflowers’ in 19 th-century London.

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