Moonlight Scandals: a de Vincent novel from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout is available now!
It takes a fearless woman to love the most scandalous man alive in New York Times Bestselling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout’s breathtaking novel
Even a ghost hunter like Rosie Herpin couldn’t have foreseen the fateful meeting between two mourners that has brought her so intimately close to the notorious and seductive Devlin de Vincent. Everyone in New Orleans knows he’s heir to a dark family curse that both frightens and enthralls. To the locals, Devlin is the devil. To Rosie, he’s a man who’s stoking her wildest fantasies. When a brutal attack on her friend is linked to the de Vincents, he becomes a mystery she may be risking her life to solve.
Devlin knows what he wants from this sexy and adventurous woman. But what does Rosie want from him? It’s a question that becomes more pressing—and more dangerous—when he suspects her of prying into the shadows of his past.
Now, the legends surrounding the de Vincents may not be myths at all. But if she’s to discover the truth, she must follow them straight into the arms of the man she can’t resist—the handsome devil himself
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These characters! They make this book. And characters are the most important part for me! I wasn't expecting to love this one the best of the series. Wasn't expecting to fall for Devlin. He certainly doesn't make that easy but it happened.
Through both book one and book two of this series, I haven't liked Devlin very much. He was always prickly and suspicious. He keeps everyone at arms length. So many suspicious things about him and none of it cast Devlin in a good light. He never smiled. He never was a part of the bothers lives. They just shared the same mansion. And it all left me feeling like Devlin, the Devil as he was called, wasn't part of the human race. But then Rosie came into his life.
Rosie has a very confident and demanding personality. Hilarious and driven, I loved her ghost hunting ways. Outspoken and willing to stand up to Dev as no one else ever has. She demanded that Devlin be human. She brought the smiles out of him. She insisted he be human. He brings the rage cleaning/organizing out in her. I loved Rosie. And while Devlin tried very hard to push her away with his lack of trust and dare I say his di** he** ways, there was something that pulled them together. Call it the de Vincent curse or some smokin' hot chemistry but they kept finding themselves around each other. And once they were around each other, the banter began.
Beaded curtains and glow in the dark stars were but the beginning. They could argue with the best of them. He didn't trust her. She thought he was a jerk. But neither could deny the attraction. From the first kiss, they were both ruined for anyone else. Of course it wasn't quite that easy. It never is. But the chemistry between them lite the pages on fire. Both feel it and are amazed and confused by it.
Which brings me to the story. It really is a recovery story for both of them. Both have strong personalities and they need each other. Neither is willing to admit that or submit to that but fate has her ways. The unraveling of all the secrets had a huge impact on them. The surprises? Oh yeah, those were there. This author has a way of pulling surprises out of nowhere. And there is one BIG one in this book that I NEVER would have seen coming. Answers for the whole series are finally given. One I had expected in part but that too had a twist I hadn't seen. The bottom line is that the pages just flew by. I devoured it in a day. Then I paced around not wanting to leave this world, this family.
As always, JLA delivers an incredible story with great living, breathing, well rounded characters. She is an auto buy author for me and has been my favorite author for a very long time. This is her 50th book. I was reading her when it was her first book. Loved her then and love her now. If you've never read her books, you're in for a treat. It would be amazing to go back and experience them all again for the first time. As it is, they are on my reread list a lot.
This series is best experienced from the beginning. You can read this stand alone but it will ruin the experience of reading the other two. AND you do want to read the other two.
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Rosie needed to get going. She’d promised to help her friend Nikki move today, so it was time to head back to her apartment, get changed, and be a good friend for the day. She leaned—
A soft, swift curse jerked her head up. Normally, she
didn’t hear a ton of cursing in a cemetery. Usually things were quite quiet. A
faint grin tugged at her lips. Cursing and cemeteries typically did not go hand
in hand. She scanned the narrow path to her right and didn’t see anything.
Leaning back, she looked to her left and found the source.
A man knelt on one knee with his back to her as he
picked up flowers that had fallen into a puddle left by the recent rainstorm.
Even from where she sat, she could see that whatever delicate bouquet he’d
carried was ruined.
Placing a hand over her eyes, she squinted in the
sunlight as she watched the man rise. He was dressed as if he’d come straight
from work. Dark trousers paired with a fitted white dress shirt. The sleeves
were rolled up to the elbows, revealing tan forearms. It was late September and
New Orleans was still circling the seventh level of hot, currently as humid as
Satan’s balls in the afternoon, so she figured if she was close to
dying in her black dress, he had to be minutes away from stripping off the
shirt.
Still standing with his back to her, he stared down at
the ruined flowers. His shoulders were tense as he turned in the other
direction. His pace was brisk as he took the flowers over to an old oak tree
festooned with Spanish moss. There was a small trash can there, one of the very
few in the entire cemetery. He tossed the flowers and then pivoted, quickly
disappearing down one of the numerous lanes.
Oh man, that sucked.
Feeling for the guy, she sprang into action.
Carefully, she pulled half of the stems free and then leaned forward, placing
the remaining in the vase in front of her Herpin tomb. She picked up her keys and as she
rose, she slid her purple- framed sunglasses on. Hurrying down the worn path
with patchy grass, she turned down the lane she’d seen the guy go down. Luck
was on her side, because she saw him near the pyramid tomb. He hung a right
there, and feeling a wee bit like a stalker, she trailed behind him.
Of course, she could yell out
to him and just hand him the other half of the peonies, but shouting at a
stranger in a cemetery just seemed wrong. Shouting in a cemetery at all felt
like something her mother would side- eye her over.
And no one side- eyed quite like her mother.
The man made another turn and then stepped out of her
line of sight. Holding on to the flowers, she walked passed a tomb with a large
cross and then her steps slowed.
She found him.
He was standing before a massive mausoleum, one
guarded by two beautifully erected weeping angels, and he was just standing
there, as still as those angels, his arms stiff at his sides and his hands closed.
She took a step for- ward as her gaze drifted to the name on the mausoleum.
de Vincent.
Her eyes widened and she blurted out, “Holy baby
llama.”
The man twisted at the waist, and Rosie was suddenly
standing within mere feet of the Devil. .
That was what the gossip magazines called him.
That
was what most of her family called him.
Rosie liked to refer to him as in her wildest dreams.
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About Jennifer L. Armentrout
Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Tor, HarperCollins Avon and William Morrow, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her Wicked Series has been optioned by PassionFlix. Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA. Her adult romantic suspense novel TILL DEATH was a Amazon Editor’s Pick and iBook Book of the Month. Her young adult contemporary THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER is a 2017 RITA Award Winner in Young Adult Fiction. She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.
She is the owner of ApollyCon and The Origin Event, the successful annual events that features over hundred bestselling authors in Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult Fiction, panels, parties, and more. She is also the creator and sole financier of the annual Write Your Way To RT Book Convention, a contest that gives aspiring authors a chance to win a fully paid trip to RT Book Reviews.
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So much same, never expected Dev to become my favorite but he so did! This book had so many twists and I loved it. Great review!
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