Wicked Loving Lies:(Brandon-Morgan#6)
1976
- dark romance
- romance
- fiction
- brandon-morgan series
- alpha male
- fiction, romance, historical
- fiction, romance, general
- historical romance
- western romance
- bodice ripper
The story
**Brandon-Morgan #6** ***In the sweeping tradition of Sweet Savage Love, New York Times bestselling author Rosemary Rogers takes readers on an epic journey that spans continents and explores the depths of human passions.*** Born of scandal and denied his birthright, Dominic Challenger took to the sea, charting his own future. A true rogue, Dominic answers to no one, trusting only himself. Until Marisa. Born of wealth and privilege, Marisa is a prisoner to her father's expectations. When the sanctuary she has found behind the walls of a convent is threatened by the news that her father has arranged for her to marry, Marisa flees...right into the arms of a pirate. From the safety of a sheltered convent to a sultan's harem, from the opulence of Napoleon's court to the wilds of the new frontier, Marisa and Dominic brave all that they encounter in this thrilling age: intrigue, captivity and danger. And above all, an enduring passion that ignites into an infinite love. While part of a series- can be read as a stand alone 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, melodramatic prose heavy with candlelit salons, rolling sea swells, sultry silk-and-incense interiors and the dust of frontier roads, the sensory world shifting every few chapters as the setting lurches from convent stone to Ottoman palace to Napoleonic gilt. The voice is ornate and breathless, full of exclamatory emotion and sweeping historical backdrop, and the sensibility is unmistakably the 1970s bodice ripper: a sea captain's brooding swagger, a sheltered heroine's fierce pride, and a romance that repeatedly tears apart and knits back together. Its mood is passionate, indulgent and theatrical, best sunk into on a slow weekend or during a long flight when escape matters more than realism. Sexual content is frequent and explicit in the era's manner, with forced-seduction and captivity elements that can feel uncomfortable by modern standards; violence and peril appear regularly, including piracy and imprisonment, though it is rarely graphic. Pacing is brisk and episodic, driven by reversals rather than introspection, and the arc follows a wilful, wounded pair learning to trust across years and continents. Written for readers who love historical romance excess, adventurous sea-and-harem settings and old-school alpha heroes, not for anyone seeking gentle or restrained storytelling.
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