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Naughty by Nature

by Barbara Pierce

Published 2007352 pagesISBN 978-0-3129-4796-5

**TWO LOVERS WILL RISK EVERYTHING...** Patience Rose Family was easily lured away from her wealthy family by the fake love of a dangerous man. Rather than face a grim future on the streets, Patience struggled to find honest work as an actress. But when the irresistibly charming Earl of Ramscar offers her legitimate employ in London as a lady's companion to his sister. Patience snaps up the chance... although her attraction to Ramscar leaves her pm shaky ground. FOR A MOMENT OF PURE BLISS... Ever since a devastating fire left his sister brutally scared, Ramscar has vowed to protect the little family he has left. Now that Patience has been hired to be his sister's companion, his conscience is clear - even if his imagination won't let him rest. Haunted by fantasies of the beautiful beguiling Patience, it's only a matter of time before they enter into an illicit affair - one that might threaten Ramscar's status among le savages nobles if Patience's dark past comes to light... and destroy them both.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Urgent pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Who it may suit

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Naughty by NatureBarbara Pierce
Powerful4.6/5

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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA standard-length read352 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2007
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3129-4796-5
Language
English
Edition record
OL9552256M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.