All her sisters have settled down into marital bliss, and are even having kids, and Sesily wants none of it. However, there is a nice bonus if you are familiar with the characters, especially given the way Sarah MacLean writes her series to bridge into one another and they’re all set in the same world with a revolving cast of recurring characters from prior books.

I will say the obligatory things: this is the first in its own series, and while there are connections to prior books, particularly the Scandal and Scoundrel series where we met Sesily, Caleb, and the Soiled S’s, you can start here without feeling lost. Sesily and Caleb finally get their HEA…huzzah! Although thinking back on the evolution of their story from a novella to its current state as Bombshell, the first in the Hell’s Belles series, it’s almost a shame I ended up glomming it so quickly upon getting to it…but it’s just that good…perhaps even better than last year’s surprise, Daring and the Duke. I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley and am voluntarily posting a review. But now Caleb is the one in trouble, because he’s fast realizing that Sesily isn’t for forgetting…she’s forever. If you ask him, he’s been a saint about it, considering the way she looks at him…and the way she talks to him…and the way she’d felt in his arms during their one ill-advised kiss.Įxcept someone has to keep Sesily from tumbling into trouble during her dangerous late-night escapades, and maybe close proximity is exactly what Caleb needs to get this infuriating, outrageous woman out of his system. No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend’s beautiful, brash, brilliant sister.

No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom…and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem. New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with a blazingly sexy, unapologetically feminist new series, Hell’s Belles, beginning with a bold, bombshell of a heroine, able to dispose of a scoundrel-or seduce one-in a single night.Īfter years of living as London’s brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title.

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