Lady Alicia Lawrence was cast out of polite society and branded a liar for a youthful mistake. When she overhears details of a conspiracy that could affect her country's fate, she turns to the one person who might believe her -- Stanton Horne, Lord Wyndham. Posing as Wyndham's mistress in order to root out the enemy, Alicia is drawn into an uneasy partnership...and a wildly seductive liaison.

Lord Wyndham's uncanny ability to detect lies has made him a valuable member of the Royal Four, but in matters of romance it has proven a distinct liability. Alicia is the only woman whose thoughts he cannot read...and the only one whose sensual touch quenches every secret desire. As the mission grows more dangerous and more personal, and each encounter with Alicia more fiery than the last, this daring spy must face his greatest challenge yet -- learn to trust the passion in his heart...

Seducing the Spy is the fourth installment in The Royal Four series.

For a romance novel, there was definitely something missing. The characters were not well thought out. I can't see where the attraction that Alicia had for Stanton stemmed from. While she claimed he was handsome, he had the personality of bear, believed her to be a liar, and consistently talked down to her about her past indiscretion and also made the fact known that she was soiled goods and was not worthy of the title of a Lady. So Alicia has a quick mind and damns convention at every turn, not caring what others think about her, but even though she tries to flaunt her scandalous reputation to exact revenge on her family, her sharp-tongued personality is not the type to forgive the slights and keep running back to him, as she had in the book. Maybe she was an undiagnosed schizophrenic with dual personalities. Who knows? It just didn't add up for me.

As far as the story line is concerned, it was your garden-variety romance story. There was nothing special that made me want to keep reading and the sex scenes weren't even that good. Just as the plot would start to pick up, I'd run into another lag that would make it hard to continue on. Consider it third down and 12 yards to go and pass on this one.

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1 edition (August 2006)
ISBN: 0312939671
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