The Private Secretary
By Summer Devon
Narrated by Mark James
Down on his luck and desperate for employment, Ezra Seton is offered only one job: to work in the house of a heartless bully, the very man who drove Ezra’s lover away. Gritting his teeth, Ezra takes the position. But neither the new job nor the master of house are what he expected. Still, he vows to keep his distance, no matter how difficult it is to maintain his composure.
Robert Demme’s pleasure-seeking days are over. Having rescued his cousin Ambrose from a lunatic asylum, he expends much of his energy pacifying the fragile eccentric. Hiring an assistant offers some relief–and also intriguing temptation. Unfortunately, the fascinating Seton apparently loathes him. Determined to discover the reason, Robert uses his considerable wit to get under the man’s skin, stunned when his plan backfires. Instead of unraveling the stalwart secretary, Robert has undone himself. All he’s accomplished is a deepening of his own interest.
When the two spend the night together in an inn, their mutual desire proves too strong. The secretary and the gentleman succumb to lust. But when Ezra’s old flame reappears and the cousin’s experiments go awry, it’s a battle to discover which will win the day: love or lunacy.
This edition includes a selection from Simon and the Christmas Spirit, a title by Summer Devon and Bonnie Dee.
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🌟🌟🌟🌟 4.25 stars
🔥🔥🔥 Heat Level: 3.5
🎧🎧🎧🎧 Narration: 4.5 (I’m a sucker for an English Accent!!)
A great historical set romance full of angst and great chemistry and character!!
This was my first historical romance. I’d previously avoided historical based stories as I worried they would be boring to me and get suck on historical timing, facts, and old-timey language but I was wrong! This story has so much angst and with the historical time, felt so naughty! I enjoyed the chemistry between Robert and Ezra and the angst and fun times were on fire! I quite enjoyed the historical England setting and found more intrigue in the time and era than I thought I would.
I loved the quirky secondary characters of Ambrose and Miss O’Keeffe. With the introduction of these characters and the historical setting is was interesting to see that they were in fact geniuses and/or autistic rather than mad and I liked their quirks and character as they grew throughout the story.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this story and it has forced me to broaden my genres to include historical romance. That being said I really enjoyed it as an audiobook and am not sure I have would enjoy it as much if I had read it.
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