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If You Deceive, the third and last installment in Kresley Cole's entertaining MacCarrick brothers series, gives the oldest and most difficult brother, Ethan, the chance to find his "forechosen mate . . . For his true lady alone his life and heart can save.� Not surprisingly, the most difficult brother also proves to be the most challenging romance, and unfortunately, the book did not quite master that challenge.
Like his brothers Court and Hugh, Ethan MacCarrick is unlucky in love, a fate he believes to be foretold by a family prophecy, the last and crucial lines of which are obscured by blood. Until each brother meets his mate, they believe they are to remain loveless, childless, and disastrous to anyone who cares for them. Ethan has doubled and even trebled his misfortune, first by the deep scar that mars his once beautiful face and then by his first fiancée's wedding-eve death. He is bitter and jaded, resentful of his responsibilities as Earl of Kavanagh and angry at the world in general, and more specifically at those who caused his disfiguring scar. Never a man who had tremendous respect for …



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