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Slightly Sinful

  • 2004 first published
  • 342 pages
  • ★ 4.2 (4 ratings)
  • 9 editions

Slightly Sinful is a 2004 historical romance and Regency romance novel by Mary Balogh. The story is set in Brussels and England, in the 19th Century Regency (1811–1820). It features Rachel York and Lord Alleyne Bedwyn. Key subjects include diplomats, impostors, man-woman relationships and large print.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.2 out of 5 from 4 ratings, and 16 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 9 editions across 3 languages.

It runs to roughly 342 pages — 6–7 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Slightly Sinful

Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality....Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle son, is cut off from his past--only to find his future with a sinfully beautiful woman he will risk everything to love. As the fires of war raged around him, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn was thrown from his horse and left for dead--only to awaken in the bedchamber of a ladies' brothel. Suddenly the dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there--yet of one thing he is certain: The angel who nurses him back to health is the woman he vows to make his own. But like him, Rachel York is not who she seems. A lovely young woman caught up in a desperate circumstance, she must devise a scheme to regain her stolen fortune. The dashing soldier she rescued from near-death could be her savior in disguise. There is just one condition: she must pose as his wife--a masquerade that will embroil them in a sinful scandal, where a man and a woman court impropriety with each daring step...with every taboo kiss that can turn passionate strangers into the truest of lovers.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Setting

Era

Characters

  • Rachel York
  • Lord Alleyne Bedwyn

Subjects

  • Historical Romance
  • Diplomats
  • Impostors
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Large print
  • Amnesia
  • Prostitution
  • Bedwyn Saga
  • Hermanos
  • Cuentos de amor
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Reading materials
  • Impostors and imposture
  • False personation
  • Novela histo rica
  • Novela

Quick answers

Who wrote Slightly Sinful?

Slightly Sinful was written by Mary Balogh and first published in 2004.

What genre is Slightly Sinful?

It is usually shelved as Historical Romance and Regency Romance.

How long is Slightly Sinful?

The median edition has 342 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Slightly Sinful?

Readers who like it often enjoy Marriage Most Scandalous, A Loving Scoundrel and Stranger in My Arms.

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