She's surreptitiously searching for a family treasure hidden in the village, the only clues to its location a cryptic rhyme handed down through the generations. Its not only the need to provide for herself and her orphaned siblings that has brought her to Devon. But with no alternatives, he grudgingly allows Emily to try, and she rapidly proves herself worthy, resurrecting the inn with tact and skill.īut Em has a secret. Jonas's initial response is an emphatic "no!" Ladies, especially one as attractive as Emily, belong in the ballroom or the bedroom, not running an inn. Then genteel but impoverished Miss Emily Beauregard applies for the position. Such a small task, yet he discovers few decent applicants are willing to live in a quiet country backwater. His most pressing need is to hire a new manager for the inn-the center of village life.
He's played cards until dawn, flirted with eligible young ladies, and made love to some ineligible ones.īut now he's restless, bored with the mindless frivolity and careless pleasure, so its with a sense of relief that he takes up the reins of his family's estate in rural Devon. Of course with a title like "Temptation and Surrender" we know how the relationship will progress, but that being said, Stephanie's protrayal of Jonas and the restraint he shows on more than one occassion is quite refreshing - thus the temptation.Handsome, wealthy, and well-born, Jonas Tallent has everything a gentleman needs to enjoy London society to the fullest - and he has. I would have preferred not to have discovered who that person was going to be so early on in the novel. Since we have a search for treasure we must have someone who wants to steal it and I think that person became too obvious to the reader. Adventure, romance and discovery, of more than just the Colyton Treasure, changes Emily's and Jonas' life forever. She is keeping her identity a secret until she finds the treasure and re-establishes her family's name to its former status in the town of Colyton. Jonas Tallent, the hero of the novel, hires Ms. A cryptic rhyme holds the clue to the treasure's location and for the last 8 years of Emily's life her goal has been to find the Colyton treasure. She hopes this discovery will provide the means to take care of her siblings and future generations of Colytons. Emily Ann Beauregard Colyton, the heroine, is searching for a family treasure.
"Temptation and Surrender" is a romance novel set in 1825.
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