Sweet Savage Love
1974
- fiction, romance, historical
- dark romance
- spy
- alpha male
- western romance
- bodice ripper, fiction
- brandon-morgan series
The story
**Brandon-Morgan #1** *PASSIONATE! TUMULTUOUS! INEVITABLE!* A tale of human emotion that lays bare the heights and depths of love, passion and desire in old and new worlds... as we follow Virginia Brandon, beautiful, impudent and innocent, from the glittering ballrooms of Paris to the sensuality of life in New Orleans to the splendor of intrigue-filled Mexico. A tale of unending passion, never to be forgotten ...the story of Virginia's love for Steven Morgan, a love so powerful that she will risk anything for him... even her life. Legend of Morgan-Challenger Series: Sweet Savage Love (Brandon-Morgan #1) Dark Fires (Brandon-Morgan #2) Lost Love, Last Love (Brandon-Morgan #3) Savage Desire (Brandon-Morgan #4) Bound by Desire (Brandon-Morgan #5) Wicked Loving Lies (Brandon-Morgan #6)
What it’s like
Lush, overheated period prose that lingers on silk, candlelit salons, humid Gulf heat and the dust of Mexican haciendas, with the sensual detail piled on thickly and the voice pitched dramatic and breathless. The mood is swooning and melodramatic, a comfort-read for a slow weekend afternoon or a late evening with a glass of wine, best taken as escapist indulgence rather than anything subtle. Its arc follows a headstrong, sheltered young woman who is swept from Parisian ballrooms into a volatile, intrigue-laced affair with a hard-edged, dominant man, their attraction a push-and-pull of defiance, desire and danger across continents. The pacing is brisk and episodic, moving through set pieces of seduction, capture and reunion, with an emotional register that runs from giddy longing to dark, forceful passion. Sexual content is explicit and frequent, and the romance includes coercive and possessive dynamics; violence appears in kidnapping, peril and battle scenes, though it stays more threat than gore. This suits adult readers who want a sprawling, unapologetically steamy historical romance and are comfortable with the genre's older, rougher conventions.
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