She needed to be tamed...She was a breathtaking firebrand, and Vere Mallory, the notorious Duke of Ainswood, had never seen anything quite like her. Although he thought he was rescuing Lydia Grenville from the clutches of a renowned wastrel, he quickly discovers she is angry at his interference! Amused by the sultry hellcat's fury, Mallory vows to teach her some humility - in life and in love. He was just the man to do it - Lydia Grenville was fuming. She was determined to save womankind from disreputable rakes like the infamous Mallory, to succumb to his scandalous charms. She finds herself overwhelmed by the scintillating sensations he brings to her body, but when she discovers that he has bragged that he's going to 'tame' her, Lydia vows to fight his advances...but nothing prepares her for the surrender she finds in his arms.
The Last Hellion was not what I was expecting but I still enjoyed it! After the trouble that Ainswood gets himself into in the previous book, I was expecting to watch him dig himself out of that. Unfortunately, some time has passed and those events aren't even mentioned. Instead we find him confronting Lydia after she nearly runs him and some other innocent bystanders over with her carriage! Lydia has much more important things to do than listen to Ainswood's ramblings, so she does what she does best: knocks him on his ass!
I pretty much adored Lydia. She's a journalist and she's out to save those who cannot save themselves. The Last Hellion has her rescuing Tamsin from being sold as a prostitute, and then helping the girl track down the jewels that she inherited. This of course brings Lydia into a much larger crime scene than she anticipated, and she winds up dragging Ainswood down with her since the blasted man keeps interrupting and ruining her investigations! To say the two bump heads would be an understatement, but Lydia will let no man get in her way! Even if he is devilishly handsome and pushes her right back.
The Last Hellion did lose me a bit toward the end. There was a bit too much going on and it just didn't interest me. But it did pick up again when we started learning more about Lydia's parentage. I love family secrets! Overall it was definitely a good read and held my attention almost to the end. Ainswood and Lydia make a wonderful couple, and their epilogue was hilariously adorable.
