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REVIEW: A Sinful Alliance by Amanda McCabe

Dear Ms McCabe,

Happy days, it’s something different. Tudor England with a French heroine and Russian hero. Definitely not the same old Regency we get offered everyday. Thank you Harlequin Historical.

Sinful Alliance starts out wonderfully with a Venetian brothel scene showdown between two spies. One of them knows what’s up but the other hasn’t a clue until it’s almost too late. And then only his deep blue eyes save the day. Marguerite knows it’s a calculated risk to get so close to her enemy but it’s the only way to slip her emerald accented dagger into his heart. When she loses the initiative, it’s almost insulting to her to be trussed up and left alive.

Almost two years later, she’s wondering if her espionage talents ever be used again when finally! she gets the summons that frees her from her boring Court cover as the royal princess’s lady in waiting. Intrigue, danger and excitement await her at the court of the English King Henry VIII. Henry is potentially open to shifting English alliance from Spain, the homeland of his increasingly estranged Queen, to …