Cameron Mackenzie is a man who loves only horses and women – in that order – or so his mistresses say.
Ainsley Douglas is a woman with a strong sense of justice and the desire to help others – even if that means sneaking around a rakish man’s bedchamber.
Which is exactly where Cam finds her – six years after he caught her the first time. Only then, she convinced Cam she was seeking a liaison, but couldn’t go through with it because of her husband. Now a widow, she’s on a mission to retrieve letters that could prove embarrassing to the queen. Cam has no interest in Ainsley’s subterfuge, but he vows to finish what they started those many years ago. One game, one kiss at a time, he plans to seduce her. And what starts out as a lusty diversion may break Cam’s own rules – and deal the scars of a dark and damaging past. ..
Jennifer Ashley has done it again. She has the most outstanding ability to take a severely damaged man, one no reader would expect to fall in love with and, with consummate skill, turn him into someone who makes your heart hurt.
The third book in the Highland Pleasures series featuring the Mackenzie brothers, The Many Sins of Lord Cameron is an outstanding addition to the series. The heroine, Ainsley Douglas, is a woman worthy of our hero and that’s saying something because the Mackenzie brothers are more than a little screwed up. Between how their abusive father raised them, mental illnesses in the family, and the horrendous experiences with wives and girlfriends in the past, there is no doubt the Mackenzie men are a mess.
Ms. Ashley writes with an emotional depth rarely seen in romance today. There is little manufactured angst. Instead, Ms. Ashley builds her story, revealing layer after layer of back story and insecurities until she arrives at a satisfying conclusion
This novel is rife with interaction with all the Mackenzies from books past and those yet to come. As a fan of her other work, I find this especially gratifying as this brings even further conclusion to those stories told before and give tantalizing peeks into the stories yet to come.
If I was forced to find fault with Ms. Ashley’s work it would only be that it takes too long from one book to the next. Hurry, Ms. Ashley. I don’t know how I’ll wait until April for Hart’s story.
The Many Sins of Lord Cameron
Jennifer Ashley
Berkley Sensation
August 2011
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