While I enjoyed these elements of A Lady of Persuasion, I did not particularly enjoy Isabel and Toby’s story. We also get a secondary romance featuring Josiah, Gray’s intriguing half-brother. Because it takes place over the course of several months, and the characters in the previous books are connected to Toby and Isabel, the reader gets to see how both Sophia and Gray, and Lucy and Jeremy are faring. In this respect, A Lady of Persuasion does not disappoint. What makes the third installment of a trilogy great is that it wraps up all of the loose ends introduced in the previous volumes. When Toby introduces himself to her, she agrees to let Toby help her find the perfect husband, not realizing that the perfect man is already in front of her.Ī Lady of Persuasion is the last of Tessa Dare’s loosely-connected trilogy. A pious and conscientious woman, Isabel quickly realizes that the fastest way to be able to restart her charity work is to marry a member of Parliament: this way, she’ll become a Lady of Persuasion, and she’ll be able to do her charity work. Isabel Grayson has come to London with her brother and new sister-in-law. His plan changes, however, when he spots Isabel Grayson at a ball, and he decides that rather than humiliating Sophia, he will humiliate the whole Grayson family by making Isabel fall in love with him, only to jilt her.

Toby vows to humiliate her just as she humiliated him. Sir Tobias Aldridge was left at the altar, and to make matters worse, his ex-fiancée, Sophia, has returned to London with a new husband on her arm. For if Toby wins this battle of persuasion, Isabel could lose her heart.Book review: Tessa Dare's *A Lady of Persuasion* If she can reform the charming devil, she'll get exactly what she craves: society's respect.

Sir Toby, with his paltry title and infamous reputation, is unsuitable husband material-but he makes her blood race, her heart pound, and her long-buried passions come to the surface. Isabel is determined to marry a wealthy, powerful lord and become a lady of influence, using her rank and fortune to fight social injustice.

When the prize is Isabel Grayson, vengeance is doubly rewarding. What better way to get back at an enemy than by stealing the scoundrel's sister? Not that Toby finds it a chore, seducing a beguiling, sultry beauty freshly arrived from the West Indies. Only one thing could convince Sir Tobias Aldridge, an incorrigible libertine, to profess undying fidelity to a woman he's just met. Tessa Dare spins a witty, wanton tale of passion and conquest, as a reformer and a rake find unexpected love.

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