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THE
DEVIL DEVERE SERIES LITERARY AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
EDITORIAL
QUOTES
"The
“Devil DeVere” series is a variation on the rake’s progress, or
the rake’s reformation, except that is doesn’t start with said
rake as the main character—a device that is amazingly clever on
Vane’s part and allows her to circle in on DeVere without revealing
too much at the outset… The series is erotic and sexy, and
sometimes you want to shake the characters until their teeth rattle,
but it is absolutely marvelous... This one should be read with
bonbons. And a fan!" --Marlene Harris for Library Journal
SERIES
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
This is one of the best ongoing series that I have read. I've loved them all and encourage everyone to check them out.
With the Devil in Charge ... there could be Hell to Pay!
She needs a protector...
Once seduced by whispered promises of a faithless lover, Phoebe Scott is determined to make a name on the Covent Garden stage, but after three years of bit parts, she realizes she'll never achieve her goals on her own merits. Acknowledging her success is dependent on a powerful patron, Phoebe is now resolved to find a protector to secure her future. With this goal in mind, she seeks out the best prospects at London's most notorious brothel.
He's avowed to celibacy...
Sir Edward "Ned" Chambers has been lost and lonely since his wife's death in childbirth. Burdened with blame, he has sworn to a life of celibacy, but after three years, he is inwardly edgy, irritable, and increasingly discontent. Perceiving the cause behind Ned's unhappiness, as well as the obvious cure, his best friend and rake of the first order, "The Devil" DeVere, is hell-bent to return Ned to the land of the living. DeVere's machinations result in an outrageous wager that could lead Ned to a new love... or land them all in the Tower!
All bets are off in in this racy Georgian romp! (romantic comedy with mature content)
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A
WILD NIGHT'S BRIDE
IND'Tale
RONE nominee
IRC
Reader Choice Best Historical Nominee
Library
Journal Best E-Book Romance 2012
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In the second installment of the award-winning Devil DeVere series, Ned's daughter Vesta is preparing for her come-out only to have her world turned upside down when her father returns from London with a bride of his own! Put out that he is so wrapped up in Phoebe, Vesta accompanies her godmother, Diana, to town where she meets and falls instantly in love with the gallant Captain Hewett DeVere.
"Hew" DeVere, younger brother to Viscount Ludovic "The Devil" DeVere, has returned from the war with plans of selling his commission and settling down. He quickly becomes enamored of the older but beautiful Diana, and barely notices eighteen-year-old Vesta. When Hew fails to respond to her feminine charms, Vesta takes extreme measures to capture the object of her desire, but Hew didn't survive the worst of the war only to succumb to Vesta's wayward wiles.
"You conniving creature! How can you possibly think I could ever love such a spoiled, petulant, self-absorbed, and scheming little wretch?"
Proving the adage that opposites attract, this hilarious romp pits the would-be huntress against the gallant hero in an epic war of wills. (Romantic comedy with mature content)
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THE
VIRGIN HUNTRESS
IND'Tale
RONE nominee
Library
Journal Best E-Book Romance 2012
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(This book is the third in a connected series but can be read first)
Sometimes the Devil is Disguised as a Gentleman...
In this third installment of the award-winning Devil Devere series, DeVere is finally center stage when Ned, Annalee, and her cousin, Diana arrive at DeVere's estate for a weekend of horseracing. From the first meeting, DeVere makes his interest in Diana acutely known. Although she sees no harm in a light flirtation, she doesn't intend to become another notch on his bedpost. Nevertheless, DeVere fascinates her.
Sometimes the Devil is Disguised as a Gentleman...
In this third installment of the award-winning Devil Devere series, DeVere is finally center stage when Ned, Annalee, and her cousin, Diana arrive at DeVere's estate for a weekend of horseracing. From the first meeting, DeVere makes his interest in Diana acutely known. Although she sees no harm in a light flirtation, she doesn't intend to become another notch on his bedpost. Nevertheless, DeVere fascinates her.
Although DeVere is outwardly arrogant, ruthless, unpredictable and manipulative, the private man is quite another creature--intensely loyal and fiercely protective of those few he cares about. Diana also maintains a false front to the world. Her twelve year marriage is a mockery and she feels unfulfilled and undesireable which makes her all too vulnerable to Devere's dangerous charm. After events take an unexpected turn, Diana's most erotic fantasies become reality when she seeks comfort and affirmation in the devil's arms. But little does she know that the fire he ignites within her will burn long after she leaves Woodcote Park.
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THE
DEVIL YOU KNOW
IND'Tale
RONE nominee
Library
Journal Best E-Book Romance 2012
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The Devil is the True Tempter of Women
In this fourth installment of the award-winning Devil DeVere series, Diana has come to London as her goddaughter's chaperone. Wanting to avoid her erstwhile lover at all costs, she nevertheless has no choice but to appeal to DeVere for help when Vesta mysteriously disappears. Although once nearly consumed by her passion for DeVere, four years has reduced the former inferno to bitterness and ashes.
Ludovic's time abroad has only served to deepen his debauchery. He's become jaded, world-weary, and bored. He also recognizes with self-annoyance that the marks of his discontent have only increased upon a certain person's arrival in London. When Diana makes her appearance in his den of iniquity in all of her glorious self-righteous fury, he suddenly feels alive again.
While DeVere is once more hell-bent to have Diana back in his bed, she will do whatever it takes to bring him to his knees. (Mature Content Warning)
In this fourth installment of the award-winning Devil DeVere series, Diana has come to London as her goddaughter's chaperone. Wanting to avoid her erstwhile lover at all costs, she nevertheless has no choice but to appeal to DeVere for help when Vesta mysteriously disappears. Although once nearly consumed by her passion for DeVere, four years has reduced the former inferno to bitterness and ashes.
Ludovic's time abroad has only served to deepen his debauchery. He's become jaded, world-weary, and bored. He also recognizes with self-annoyance that the marks of his discontent have only increased upon a certain person's arrival in London. When Diana makes her appearance in his den of iniquity in all of her glorious self-righteous fury, he suddenly feels alive again.
While DeVere is once more hell-bent to have Diana back in his bed, she will do whatever it takes to bring him to his knees. (Mature Content Warning)
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THE
DEVIL'S MATCH
IND'Tale
RONE nominee
LIBRARY
JOURNAL BEST E-ROMANCE OF 2012
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Every
devil has a beginning...
From the outset of young Lord DeVere's arrival at Westminster School, his scandalous family secrets set him apart from the other aristocratic scions as an "untouchable." Akin to a dark shadow following him, the ugly truth remained that his mother was indeed the biggest whore in England, and his presumed father was no less than a pox-ridden madman.
Likewise, Simon Singleton's poetic proclivities had instantly made him the bullies' mark, and even Edward Chambers' great size had served as little deterrent for the upper classmen's taunts when accompanied by adolescent awkwardness and a broad North Country drawl.
By the end of the first form, however, the three young outcasts had forged an iron-clad bond that would maintain them through nearly six years. DeVere's finely honed shell of arrogance, Ned's increasing brawn, and Sin's rapier wit gave birth to an unholy triumvirate that would come to wreak perpetual and unchallenged havoc upon Westminster School…
From the outset of young Lord DeVere's arrival at Westminster School, his scandalous family secrets set him apart from the other aristocratic scions as an "untouchable." Akin to a dark shadow following him, the ugly truth remained that his mother was indeed the biggest whore in England, and his presumed father was no less than a pox-ridden madman.
Likewise, Simon Singleton's poetic proclivities had instantly made him the bullies' mark, and even Edward Chambers' great size had served as little deterrent for the upper classmen's taunts when accompanied by adolescent awkwardness and a broad North Country drawl.
By the end of the first form, however, the three young outcasts had forged an iron-clad bond that would maintain them through nearly six years. DeVere's finely honed shell of arrogance, Ned's increasing brawn, and Sin's rapier wit gave birth to an unholy triumvirate that would come to wreak perpetual and unchallenged havoc upon Westminster School…
LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST E-ROMANCE OF 2012
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**Special
Note:
The
Trouble with Sin (Devilish
Vignette #2) is a comic romp that follows on the heels of Devil
in the Making. It
is also a prequel to Jewel
of the East (
book #5 in the Devil Devere series)
The
Trouble with Sin … Is the devil within…
Aspiring
poet Simon "Sin" Singleton, has lived his life only for
larks, laughter, and ladies of easy virtue, eluding defying, and
flouting all manner of authority until his impetuous misdeeds finally
catch up with him. Having lost his muse, his allowance, and even his
friends by edict from a tyrannical father and puritanical mother,
Simon is ready to drown himself in drink, until receiving an
ingenious proposition that could change everything.
The wages of Sin is…...twenty-five percent of the net!
The wages of Sin is…...twenty-five percent of the net!
It
seems a fantasy come true when Simon is offered an independent income
by combining his two great passions— poetry and lewd women —by
writing poetry about lewd women! Unfortunately, maintaining anonymity
may be much harder than he thought…
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**Special
Note
This
short erotic installment in the award-winning Devil DeVere series can
stand alone as a complete story, but also serves to bridge The
Devil's Match and Jewel of the East (Salime and Simon's story).
In
her last month of pregnancy, Diana, Viscountess DeVere, has barely
settled into her new life and role as "the devil" DeVere's
wife, when her increasingly restless husband receives an urgent
summons to London. When Diana inadvertently discovers a message he
received from a known courtesan with whom he was formerly linked, she
fears her marriage is over before it has begun.
They were barely three months into a marriage that had begun on rather shaky ground. Was it possible that for him, the novelty of it had already worn off? This had always been Diana's greatest fear, for Ludovic was a man with a voracious sensual appetite, one he had honed with years of endless variety and constant, unrestrained indulgence. Diana, on the contrary, had known only one true lover--this same perplexing man who was now her husband--the one who had made her heavy with his child...and now left her alone in a cold bed.
They were barely three months into a marriage that had begun on rather shaky ground. Was it possible that for him, the novelty of it had already worn off? This had always been Diana's greatest fear, for Ludovic was a man with a voracious sensual appetite, one he had honed with years of endless variety and constant, unrestrained indulgence. Diana, on the contrary, had known only one true lover--this same perplexing man who was now her husband--the one who had made her heavy with his child...and now left her alone in a cold bed.
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Maimed
by misfortune… healed by love…
His wounds run deep…Having once lived his life only for larks, laughter, and ladies of easy virtue, Captain Simon Singleton has returned from war a shambles of a man. Although free from six years of captivity, he's still fettered by fears that confine him to a life of seclusion.Her scars are well-hidden…
His wounds run deep…Having once lived his life only for larks, laughter, and ladies of easy virtue, Captain Simon Singleton has returned from war a shambles of a man. Although free from six years of captivity, he's still fettered by fears that confine him to a life of seclusion.Her scars are well-hidden…
Once
the crowning jewel of the most lavish brothel in London, the exotic
Salime finds her reputation and livelihood destroyed by a bitter
rival. With a closely guarded secret stripped away, she fears no man
will ever desire her again. Seeking aid from one who once saved her
life, she accepts a proposition to become a companion to his
war-scarred friend.But
love is the eternal cure…
When
circumstance brings these two damaged souls together, fate ignites a
love story worthy of the Arabian Nights.
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Author Bio:
Victoria Vane is an award-winning author of smart and sexy romance. Her collective works of fiction received twenty-one reviewer awards and nominations to include Library Journal Best E-Book romance of 2012 for The Devil DeVere series. Her works range from historical to contemporary settings and include everything from wild comedic romps to emotionally compelling erotic romance. Look for her hot new contemporary cowboy series coming from Sourcebooks in Fall of 2014.
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