Review: Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

Casee‘s review of Bound By Your Touch by Meredith Duran.

Silver-tongued Viscount Sanburne is London’s favorite scapegrace. Alas, Lydia Boyce has no interest in being charmed. When his latest escapade exposes a plot to ruin her family, she vows to handle it herself. Certainly she requires no help from a too-handsome dilettante whose main achievement is being scandalous.

But Sanburne’s golden charisma masks a sharper mind and darker history than she realizes. He shocks Lydia by breaking past her prim facade to the woman beneath . . . and the hidden fire no man has ever recognized. But as she follows him into a world of intrigue, she will learn that the greatest danger lies within—in the shadowy, secret motives of his heart.

Once in a while, a really great historical comes along that just knocks me off my feet. It doesn’t happen very often, so I’m surprised that it has happened twice in two months. The first amazing historical I read was Scandal by Carolyn Jewel. Bound By Your Touch is the second. For me, starting a book with no expectations is when I find that I especially love them.

Lydia Boyce has no misconceptions about herself when it comes to men. Having made a fool out of herself four years before, Lydia has no desire to repeat her mistake. She knows that she’s far from society’s idea of what a woman of her age should be. Lydia is fascinated by her father’s work in Egypt and enjoys handling his affairs for him while he’s on a site trying to dig up the next historic artifact. The only man that has never let her down is her father. So when Viscount Sanburne tries to discredit her father, Lydia is furious and determined to prove him wrong.

Sanburne had no intention of doing anything to discredit Lydia’s father. All he wants to do is make himself as much of a nuisance to his father, the Earl of Mooreland, as possible. After putting his sister in a mental hospital after she killed her husband, Sanburne found that the fragile truce he and his father had was broken. In the years since, Sanburne does any and everything possible to drive his father crazy. He never intended to get involved with Lydia Boyce, but he soon finds that he’s powerless to resist her unlikely charm.

Lydia can’t imagine why Sanburne seems so interested in her. Though she wants nothing to do with him, she needs his help to prove that her father has nothing to do with smuggling. She is shocked by her reaction to Sanburne and powerless to resist him when he turns his sights on her.

What made this book so great was how different these two seemed, yet how alike they really were. They were both resolute in their beliefs; Lydia, in her father’s innocence and Sanburne, in his father’s guilt. Being involved with each other, they’re both forced to take a long look at what they believe and realize that they may be wrong. For people as stubborn as these, it’s not an easy thing to admit.

If you’re looking for a great historical, this is it. There’s a little intrigue (I wouldn’t call in mystery), tons of sexual tension, and some fun bantering. This is my first book by Meredith Duran, but it will not be my last.

4.5 out of 5.

This book is available from Pocket. You can buy it here.

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