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Dark Fancy (Noble Passions Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Sabrina York (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Dark Fancy, by Sabrina York
Book 1 in the steamy Regency Noble Passions Series

When Lady Helena Simpson flees an unwanted marriage to a revolting lord, she finds refuge with James, a charming, handsome man unlike any she’s ever known. Helena concocts the perfect solution to her problem. She asks—begs—James to ruin her. Surely her betrothed will repudiate her if she is no longer pure. And if all her efforts fail and she still ends up married to a horrid man until the end of her days, she will at least once have known true passion.

But James is not all he seems. He is, in fact, a wicked lord with a dark fancy. When Helena awakens his desire, he becomes determined to take everything she has to offer and more. No matter the cost.

2014 NTRWA Carolyn Reader Choice Award Winner

This book was originally published in 2013 and has been re-edited, re-covered and re-published.

Check out all the stories in the Noble Passions Series:

Dark Fancy, Book 1
Dark Duke, Book 2
Brigand, Book 3
Defiant, Book 4
Folly, Book 5

PRAISE FOR DARK FANCY:

4-STARS.You Gotta Read

"An entertaining read that will sweep readers away." Amazon Reviewer

"Dark Fancy was a great historical...probably the best ones I have ever read! She wrote it with humor and steam...lots and lots of steam!! What a great story!" Amazon Reviewer

"Massively hot!" Amazon Reviewer
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  5. Publication date
    29 June 2016
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01HS40DDO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sabrina York (29 June 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3335 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Sabrina York

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Her Royal Hotness, Sabrina York, is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of hot, humorous romances. Find playful, sexy, funny love stories to feed your soul.

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Sabrina's work has garnered stellar reviews, many awards, including a Rita nomination and the Excellence in Romance Fiction Award, and has appeared on multiple UST and NYT bestseller lists.

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Rosemary Hughes
5.0 out of 5 stars She fled, straight into the Devil's embrace
Reviewed in Australia on 1 December 2017
Could you imagine being betrothed to a man you have never meet. Sold as it were to the highest bidder, that's what the women of the Ton of the Regency period experienced.
This is a story of one such young Lass that had overhead her fate, and rebelled, by running and then endeavoring to make herself repugnant to the Lord she was tetthered to, by asking a gardener to "deflower" her.
It's a grand old tale, with a little taste of BDSM thrown in.
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C. Biby
5.0 out of 5 stars another York winner for me...
Reviewed in the United States on 26 February 2013
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Sabrina York is one of my new favorite authors since I got my Kindle. Her books are so much fun to read. The characters are always fresh and pretty damn funny. The writing style is witty and playful. You just fall in love with her characters and her books.

We first meet Helena and James in Folly where they are a newly married couple that cannot keep their hands off each other. I loved them as secondary characters, especially Helena, because of how concerned they were for Eleanor. So of course I was over the moon when Sabrina announced Dark Fancy was the prequel to Folly and the story of how Helena met James. I loved Helena in Folly, but I fell for James in this book. He meets Helena and instantly thinks she is either a child or a teenager. He's sweet and compasionate towards her until he gets her into the gardner's house. His feelings towards her go through the roof. His reaction to Helena's proposition was hysterical. In the few uninterupted days they spend together, James focuses on Helena's lessons and draws her out of her "obedient" shell she was forced into at school for girls. We see a lot of Helena in Folly and in this book, her reactions towards Eleanor are reinforced. Helena is a sassy woman. She knows that she wants James and she wants to feel passion towards a man, so she gets it. Boy, does she ever get it. But when she finds out that James has been keeping a pretty big secret from her, she fights him tooth and nail when he tries to claim her. Of course, everything works out in the end.

Since Dark Fancy in the prequel to Folly, there are two ways you could read the series. I enjoyed the books better by reading this book after Folly. I get to meet James and Helena as secondary characters in Folly and I loved them together. And then when I read Dark Fancy, I got to know them on a deeper level and fall for them all over again. Plus you get chuckle at the end of the books when you learn just why James and Helena named their son Edward.

Speaking of Edward... Sabrina, you are such a tease! Here I thought this would be the last time we see these characters, then we meet Edward. As a friend of James, Edward sort of helps (...in his own little way) James "win" Helena back. Edward is a cad... And of course, I want more of him. :)
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Heidiho
4.0 out of 5 stars Very saucy!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2018
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A delightful read. Funny, rambunctious, heated and saucy.
Eloise is a delight and James a refreshing Lord - not at all stuffy or toad-like.
Misunderstandings and wrong assumptions make for a good read wrapped up in ribbon of lust and desire.
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Laurel Stuart
1.0 out of 5 stars this was the most idiotic pornographic fairy tale I have ever read
Reviewed in Canada on 5 January 2017
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this was the most idiotic pornographic fairy tale I have ever read. It is so bad that I cannot even consider anything else written by this author
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C.A. Szarek
4.0 out of 5 stars good read.
Reviewed in the United States on 18 September 2014
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I didn't like this one as much as I liked some of the others in this series, book 5 particularly, but it made me laugh and I really did like Helena. Of course James was hot and I'm not even a big fan of blonds. Sex was hot of course but I'm not a BDSM fan, so that part turned me off.The storyline was sweet and of course I loved the HEA. there are more books in the series I will definitely look out for them!
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Astrid Steed
5.0 out of 5 stars Wickedly beautiful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2021
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I absolutely loved this story about hidden identities, wicked desires and true love. I love Sabrina's writing and the clever story.
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