Temptation

By Jude Deveraux

It is l909 and Temperance O'Neil is a woman ahead of her time. She's happy and devoted to helping single mothers on the streets of New York. But her new stepfather, Angus McCairn, does not approve and insists she quit her career and, as a respectable unmarried daughter should, live in his house in Edinburgh. Furious, but with no other choice, Temperance heads for Scotland determined to drive Angus crazy. Soon, an exasperated Angus makes her an unlikely offer: to pose as housekeeper to his nephew James, and find him a wife, secretly. If she succeeds, he'll allow her back to New York.

Temperance, smart, passionate, as stubborn as her stepfather, is determined at any cost to win her return passage. But she has taken on far more than she expected. James McCairn, Laird of Clan McCairn, is no cultured gentleman but a strapping, rough-mannered farmer, rude and brusque. There are pigeons roosting in the kitchen and chickens in the bedroom. Marriage is the last thing on his mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Release date: Dec 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781471104220

Jude Deveraux

Jude Deveraux is the author of historical and contemporary women's fiction featuring women of strong character and gorgeous, exciting men. Jude has had more than thirty books on the New York Times bestsellers list, 60 million copies in print, and has been translated into 18 languages. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading murder mysteries, working in her garden, and in boxing class she likes to show much younger males that she can throw a mean right cross.

Reviews for Temptation

[Toyin · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Love Jude Deveraux's books but her endings are always sooooo lame!! Hated this ending really silly otherwise a good, light read.

[vhartpowers · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

It's set in New York in the early 1900's and Temperance was a rich "do-gooder." Then her widowed mother remarried there by taking control of Temerance's finances and turning her life upside down.
(cheesy ending)

[ophelieovize · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Temperance is independent young women ahead of her time in New York City that encourages women to be stronger. When her mother marries an uptight Scottish man, her world will forever change. Removing her from her banking accounts, he forces her to move to Scotland with her mother. Upon arrival, Temperance is furious and attempts to ruin her step-father by over spending. As a last resort, the father decides to send her to his nephew’s house with a mission to find the young man a wife. The book is about how Temperance changes as a person and how her idea of love and compassion transforms as she spends time with James McCarn. I really enjoyed this book. I thought that her development was well portrayed. I quickly became very fond of the characters and then completely plunged in the book. Only downfall of this book would be that it is expected. Once she leaves to go to James’ house, I could already predict the ending. So I would just depict this book as a good summer read or chick flick.

[kqueue_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Early suffragette and do-gooder Temperance O'Neil is incensed that her new stepfather is in control of her fortune and expects her to act like a dutiful, proper young lady. She continues to needle him until he sends her to his nephew, James's house with the promise that if she can find James a wife, he will allow her to return to New York and her work. What happens next is no surprise. I generally love romance novels as a good guilty pleasure, but the breathy qualities of the narrator, combined with her insistence to perform a nearly unintelligible imitation of a Scottish brogue drove me nuts. It didn't help that I didn't realize this audiobook was an abridgement and there were jarring gaps in narrative. I might have liked it better in the print form, but the narration was too annoying.