Pages: 352
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Publication Date: 20th September 2016
Format: Ebook
Rating: 4/5
Having previously read The Lawrence Brown Affair by Cat Sebastian, I was keen to try one of her other books, and I wasn't disappointed.
The Soldier's Scoundrel brings together two men from very different worlds. Jack Turner is a man who has clawed himself out of hardship to run a business as a private investigator. Drawing on his criminal connections and underworld skills such as housebreaking, and reading a mark, Jack tracks down cheating husbands, blackmailers and the like for society ladies.
He meets the gentlemanly veteran Captain Oliver Rivington when that man turns up at his office, demanding to know what service Jack performed for his sister, which would claim £200 from her household accounts.
Oliver Rivington is a man of good standing in society. He is polite, and honourable, and he longs for the clear morality of ordinary life, away from the battlefields where he earned his limp.
Jack and Oliver begin at loggerheads. Oliver does not trust Jack, his work, or his motives, and Jack himself has a long history of distaste for gentlemen of any kind after a life spent at the mercy of such men. But as Jack's latest case brings them together, neither can resist the growing attraction to the other.
I enjoyed the drama of the society intrigues playing out around the central romance, and the strong bonds of sisterhood that emerge between all of the women whose stories converge in the backdrop, but it was of course the romance that stole the show.
Jack and Oliver are both well-drawn, and interesting characters. Their relationship is a source of passion, and of conflict, and it was exhilarating to follow that growing connection through their many trials. I particularly liked the not-quite-innocence of Rivington, as he impressed his new lover, and the way Jack's growing trust in Oliver allowed him to make himself vulnerable.
Overall, The Soldier's Scoundrel is another fantastic historical romance from Cat Sebastian, which I would highly recommend.
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