Devil’s Wager by Mary Spencer
The villain completely steals the show and my heart. Oops.

The villain completely steals the show and my heart. Oops.

The hero runs roughshod over the heroine, and it’s not fun to see the tire tracks.

Now this is more like it. Subplots galore but with sexy times and a memorable couple.

Ah, Venice in the old days. Beautiful place, beautiful book.

P.S. I’m going to hurl now.

The hero doesn’t seem to really want the happy ending at all, so this one is quite the doozy.

The premise is dead on arrival, and it’s never getting better from there.

The dog is, I suppose, cute enough. Everything else is just eye-roll inducing.

Wow, this story has some disquieting implications about how far a woman should go in accepting rotten behavior from their partners.
