This is my 67th book by Scarlett Scott. She is definitely one of my favorite authors. She is actually one of my top favorites. I have been reading her since 2016. I love her stories and her writing and she writes such damn good, yummy, hot sex scenes. I know I will always get a good read from her. I always love when she starts a new series.

I loved Tansy and Maxim. What a great story. I don't read book descriptions anymore so had no idea this was a spin off of the Rogue's Guild series. I would definitely recommend reading that series first. You could read this without reading those but it'll make more sense if you do. As always great read. Great couple. Fantastic sex. So yummy. Loved!!!favorites10 s ChasingLeslie399 80

Lady-in-waiting Tansy Francis is in London for the formal betrothal of the princess. But secretly, Tansy has become caught up in the plans for a revolution in her homeland. King Maximilian of Varros has a reputation as a brutal, callous ruler who has stopped at nothing to forge peace in his kingdom. But now that peace is being threatened, and he’ll burn everything and everyone to the ground to save it…and seize the woman he desires along the way.

This is the first book in the Royals and Renegades series, however it appears to be running concurrent to the timeline of Her Wicked Rogue (book three of the Rogue’s guild series) which features Princess Anastasia and Archer Tierney.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story! The chemistry was electric from page two, and it just kept me hooked with plenty of tension, humor, and sex. I loved that the couple was on page together through a majority of the book and there was the right amount of intrigue without eclipsing the romance. Two thumbs up!

Tropes: Royalty, Forbidden Romance

Steam: 5

* I received an ARC and this is my honest review.

steamy-read-recs8 s1 comment Missy817

This book is the first installment in the new series, Royals and Renegades (no GR link yet) and the story runs parallel to the last book in the Rogue's Guild Series titled Her Wicked Rogue. I think it stands well on its own. Goodreads didn't link Her Wicked Rogue as part of the Rogue's Guild Series for some reason. Since this book runs parallel with Her Wicked Rogue, I think it should have been part of the previous series.

The story was choppy at times and have time jumps. Outside of the sex scenes, it didn't keep my interest, which was a shame because I was excited to read this book since reading the blurb back in December. A forbidden romance between a king and a lady in waiting to the princess he is betrothed to, plus an age gap? YES! Give me! Give me! Even though I don't to read romances with characters of royalty (due to the politics), I was willing to overlook that the hero is a king.

I don't know specifically what I didn't enjoy about the book, just that I was bored during the first half. The second half was a little better since that's where all the spicy scenes happened. I eventually lost interest in reading the spicy scenes since I wasn't convinced of their chemistry and Tansy fell in love way too quickly. They were alone no more than 5 times before she admitted to herself that she had fallen in love with the king. How? They barely knew each other. She didn't even know he had a wife!

Scarlett Scott didn't describe the action scenes in detail. I wouldn't be able to either but I expected more. For instance,
1) Chapter 3 (I think that's the chapter) begins in the middle of a scene. Reading further, we learn that there was a failed assassination with the assassin already dead and removed from the room and we read Maxim's reaction to that. He can't stand the sight of blood (he used to be in the military and his wife was brutally beaten and murdered), so he's tapping his foot or pacing the room to keep himself from going "mad." I would have d to read how the assassin attacked and how he was disposed of. Was it Maxim who killed the assassin or was it his bodyguard Felix? Although I think it may have been Felix.

2) Maxim is planning a revolution to dethrone his fiance's uncle, but we're only given a summary of what happened. Princess Anastasia's uncle got killed during the revolution and her brother, Theo, reclaimed the throne and married an English woman. Theo has his own book, Her Dangerous Beast Maybe she didn't want to bore us with the details, but it is a little anti-climactic.

This is something I noticed in Her Wicked Rogue. The first chapter with the two main characters (Princess Anastasia and Archer), we're in the middle of the scene. She had already propositioned him to find her brother in exchange for her jewels and we read his POV to her job offer. I was confused and wondered if I was missing some pages but nope! That's just how the chapter begins. I would have d to read his initial reaction to her, a princess, in his home in the middle of the night.

Some things I d about the book:
1) I that Maxim has a close relationship with his younger brother, Nando (short for Ferdinando). I assume he's going to have his own book.

2) The spice.
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