A Lady by Midnight [NOOK Book]

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A temporary engagement, a lifetime in the making . . .

After years of fending for herself, Kate Taylor found friendship and acceptance in Spindle Cove—but she never stopped yearning for love. The very last place she'd look for it is in the arms of Corporal Thorne. The militia commander is as stone cold as he is brutally handsome. But when mysterious strangers come searching for Kate, Thorne steps forward as her fiancé. He claims to have only ...

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A Lady by Midnight

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Overview

A temporary engagement, a lifetime in the making . . .

After years of fending for herself, Kate Taylor found friendship and acceptance in Spindle Cove—but she never stopped yearning for love. The very last place she'd look for it is in the arms of Corporal Thorne. The militia commander is as stone cold as he is brutally handsome. But when mysterious strangers come searching for Kate, Thorne steps forward as her fiancé. He claims to have only Kate's safety in mind. So why is there smoldering passion in his kiss?

Long ago, Samuel Thorne devoted his life to guarding Kate's happiness. He wants what's best for her, and he knows it's not marriage to a man like him. To outlast their temporary engagement, he must keep his hands off her tempting body and lock her warm smiles out of his withered heart. It's the toughest battle of this hardened warrior's life . . . and the first he seems destined to lose.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Dare's third Spindle Cove romance proves that sequels can equal, and even better, their predecessors (A Week to Be Wicked). In the early 19th century English coastal community of Spindle Cove, orphaned piano teacher Kate Taylor is desperate to find the truth about her parentage. After a discouraging visit to her former schoolmistress, who refuses to tell Kate anything, she finds herself relying on fellow Spindle Cove resident Corporal Thorne's kindness to return safely home. Though the meek Kate initially feels intimidated by her roguish escort, a mutual attraction sparks between the two during their journey. Upon arriving back at the Queen's Ruby inn, Kate is surprised to find a bevy of aristocrats in her room claiming to be her lost family. Thorne, suspicious of their motives, proposes to Kate that they become affianced, allowing him to stay at her side and protect her. But their fake engagement brings out genuine feelings even as answers to Kate's questions begin to emerge. Dare's captivating plotline is enlivened by multi-dimensional characters, while the love story is enhanced by the mysteries of its heroine's past.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780062049902
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 8/28/2012
  • Sold by: Harpercollins
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 116
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

Tessa Dare is a sometime librarian, full-time mom, and swing-shift writer. Recently, Booklist magazine named her one of the "new stars of historical romance." She makes her home in Southern California, where she shares a cozy, cluttered bungalow with her husband, their two children, and a big brown dog.

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Customer Reviews

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Dec 26 00:00:00 EST 2012

    Sweet Romance

    A Lady By Midnight is book 3 in the Spindle Cove series, but can be read as a stand alone book.

    *Sigh* A Lady By Midnight. What can I say? All in all, this was a nice, witty romance.

    Here you have a heroine who's been orphaned at a young age and does not know where she came from. She's got a birthmark on her face and has always felt less than beautiful. Her life will be transformed one day, at midnight no less. Kind of like Cinderella. I liked Kate, her inner monologue would make me laugh.

    Thorne is all you need in a hero. He's a gentleman to Kate, always at her rescue, but he's got a dark, tortured past. He thinks he's not good enough for her. Beta hero alert. Both he and Kate share a bond due to their unhappy childhoods.

    Author Tessa Dare has given us a hero with a bit of what I'm thinking is post traumatic stress disorder. The atrocities he saw in the war make him black out sometimes when he's angry or under stress. But, of course, he never harms Kate.
    I liked the use of tattoos on Thorne. He has several tats, and he explains them all to Kate. It all adds more mystery to his character.

    I enjoyed the scenes between these two. Kate kept trying to pull Thorne in and find out about his shaded past, he kept trying to resist her. As the story flows, Thorne reveals his past and his reasons for keeping Kate away. The sex scenes were spicy hot. Maybe it's just me, but sex scenes in historical/regency romance always make me giggle.

    Perhaps her sense of touch was misleading her. Maybe if she looked the organ head-on, it wouldn't seem so intimidating.
    She dropped her gaze and pushed his breeches down over his hips.
    p.196

    As the story flows, Kate finds out hidden secrets about her past, her mother, the Grammercys and even Thorne. In the end, she has an important choice to make, as there is a bit of a twist to story.

    There is a fight scene over Kate at one point and the author did a great job with it, she managed to add humor to it as well. It's one of my favorite scenes in the book.

    Overall, I felt like A Lady By Midnight could have been slightly shorter. Although I found myself losing interest a little bit towards the middle, I enjoyed the story overall.
    A Week to Be Wicked is the first in this series. I might read it one day.

    I recommend this one to fans of historical romance.
    This review is my honest opinion. I did not receive any type of compensation for reading and reviewing this book. I purchased my copy.

    9 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    High expectations

    This was just ok for me. The first two in the series were great. I fell hard for Corporal Thorne and I was anxious for his story. I just knew in my heart these two characters would have a great story, I was wrong. It started great, until the family came into play (which was early in the book). I just expected something different, perhaps that was my problem with this book. I built up such expectations and for me at least they just fell flat. All the negatives aside the intimacy between these two was great. Steamy love scences that definately raised my temperature. I am still a big fan of Tessa Dare and would read anything she wrote. 3 stars because I'm a fan.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Length

    Why must some of you write you own cliff notes on the book?TELL is whar you think and leave it at that......

    3 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    K

    Too many plot spoilers here ruin another book. These rude inconsiderate ppl should be banned and fined. Bn, please do something to these plot spoilers to stop them from revealing the entire details of the book.

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2013

    Very good!

    I thought this was a touching story. I enjoyed it and the characters were well defined.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Thu Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2012

    more from this reviewer

    Kate has been orphaned at a young age and does not know where sh

    Kate has been orphaned at a young age and does not know where she came from. She's got a birthmark on her face and has always felt less than beautiful. Her life will be transformed one day, at midnight no less. Kind of like Cinderella. I liked Kate, her inner monologue would make me laugh.

    Thorne is all you need in a hero. He's a gentleman to Kate, always at her rescue, but he's got a dark, tortured past. He thinks he's not good enough for her. Beta hero alert. Both he and Kate share a bond due to their unhappy childhoods.

    Author Tessa Dare has given us a hero with a bit of what I'm thinking is post traumatic stress disorder. The atrocities he saw in the war make him black out sometimes when he's angry or under stress. But, of course, he never harms Kate.

    "She might not be able to comprehend the horrors he'd faced on the battlefield, but she knew how it felt to be an unwanted child. She understood how it felt to be deemed worthless and ugly by the very person charged with her care. She knew how each and every unkind remark worked on a child's confidence for weeks, months, years. Bruises faded from the skin, but insults worked like weevils, burrowing into a person's soul."
    p.100, A Lady By Midnight

    I liked the use of tattoos on Thorne. He has several tats, and he explains them all to Kate. It all adds more mystery to his character.

    I enjoyed the scenes between these two. Kate kept trying to pull Thorne in and find out about his shaded past, he kept trying to resist her. As the story flows, Thorne reveals his past and his reasons for keeping Kate away. The sex scenes were spicy hot. Maybe it's just me, but sex scenes in historical/regency romance always make me giggle.

    "Perhaps her sense of touch was misleading her. Maybe if she looked the organ head-on, it wouldn't seem so intimidating.
    She dropped her gaze and pushed his breeches down over his hips."
    p.196, A Lady By Midnight

    As the story flows, Kate finds out hidden secrets about her past, her mother, a family called the Grammercys and even Thorne. In the end, she has an important choice to make, as there is a bit of a twist to story.

    There is a fight scene over Kate at one point and the author did a great job with it, she managed to add humor to it as well. It's one of my favorite scenes in the book.

    Overall, I felt like A Lady By Midnight could have been slightly shorter. Although I found myself losing interest a little bit towards the middle, I enjoyed the story overall.
    A Week to Be Wicked is the first in this series. I might read it one day.

    I recommend this one to fans of historical romance with a twist of humor and a tortured hero to boot.



    This review is my honest opinion. I did not receive any type of compensation for reading and reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers and authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review. I purchased my copy of this book.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Tue Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2012

    awesome

    Sexy funny and witty. Great story line. Iwould highly recommend this one

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Sweet

    I didn't want it to end. The loved the characters, the twists, the plot, and the ending wasn't that cliche.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Disappointed

    After reading all the previous Spindle Cove books, I was very disappointed with this story. The love story wasnt believable. I liked Kate, but I did not enjoy Samuel's character. Tessa Dare is great, one of my favorite authors, but this book was so unlike the others. I was also interested in reading more of the previous characters - Colin and Minerva- and of the characters for the next book, but my curiosity was not satisfied.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Tori

    Everyones is acting up:/

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Tue Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Tori

    How r u?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    To tori and liam

    Hi i am james rooke from tetonia idaho hope you will wanna talk

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Good

    Gooodddddd

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Nice

    Enjoyed it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Liam

    My nooks fuked up

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2013

    Made me laugh and fall in love ! Wonderful read!!!

    For readers that enjoy historical romance genre ... you will sure to enjoy this. You will fall in love and laugh with samuel and katie. Not too complicated story, the story is easy but with feelings that would want you to keep on reading until the end. Thanks for good read Tessa!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2013

    Terrible writing

    Couldn't get past 80 pages, even skipping and scanning after the first few pages. Truly bad writing and character development.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2013

    GREAT READ

    GREAT READ

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2013

    very good

    loved this book

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Jan 02 00:00:00 EST 2013

    Good story

    This was the first book I read of this author, and it was great.

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