How dark do you like your romance? I read Scandalous desires and hated it. Lots of murder, conspiracy, and high drama abounds.

She tends to write darker as well as hotter, and her heroes and heroines can be less innocent and more flawed and complex. Two heroes (of Duke of Sin and Duke of Pleasure) and the heroine above were victimized by it. The series is kinda in arcs? And the last arc deals heavily with a death cult that involves a lot of sexual abuse of children. Sweetest Scoundrel-rogue hero and uptight heroine, but she has suffered childhood SA and the book deals with that a lot they work up to penetration through a lot of mutual masturbation and voyeurismĭuke of Sin-not my personal favorite but famous for a reason, absolutely insane hero and housekeeper heroine Thief of Shadows-virgin hero, widowed heroine who’s older and more experienced, he’s quite stern tho and it balances outĭuke of Midnight-Georgian Batman, WILD dirty talk, hero is super dominant and the heroine is like…. Scandalous Desires-widow/pirate, there is a baby but it’s not her baby by blood, he is super charming and dominant (all Hoyt heroes are dominant, basically) You’ll get a hint of the next book in the series basically every time in a subplot.

Maiden Lane is fabulous but I will say that they do kinda overlap. The rest of the series is really good, but to me you get a great idea of who she is as a writer with this one. I think The Raven Prince is a great starting point-but it is her debut and she does grow, and it’s fully bananas. I’ve read almost every Hoyt book and she’s a top tier author in my opinion so I’m going to get nerdy as fuck about this.

The raven prince by elizabeth hoyt