Deepest Desires of a Wicked Duke (The Wicked Dukes) Paperback – October 25, 2016

The main action takes place is a unique setting that lends itself to a fast-moving, life and death mystery. The connection between the main characters is realistic and passionate.

When I drafted this review I was too lazy to look up the title and saved the file as “The Randy Duke”. Now, I know I haven’t read a historical romance in a long time but I don’t remember them being anything like this one. It starts out with the hero revisiting his path to self-destruction and involves a visit to a party where he walks in on his best friend who is doing a very naughty thing to a woman’s backside.My, how things have changed while I was away reading my innocent little horror tales!If you’ve ever wondered what those stiff upper class historical romance gentlemen get up to when they leave the fancy ballrooms, this book fills in all the blanks in vivid detail!Hell, if I had only known I may have been reading little else. Ahem. Anyway there is a story here. Let’s see if I can find it . . .Portia, a firmly on-the-shelf spinster, is just living her life, saving orphans and such when one day she is kidnapped, brought to a secluded island and awakens to find herself stuck in a house where a non-step orgy is about to occur. Her innocent eyes are shocked by the sights she spies but also very, very intrigued. Especially when she sees her old flame and former fiancée, The Randy Duke or Sin, as he prefers to be called, is also milling about and is as handsome as ever.Oh my. Betcha know where this is heading!After he broke off his engagement with Portia, the supposed love of his life, for reasons, Sin has spent the past ten years throwing orgies and indulging his darker urges. But alas, when he sees Portia again he wants what he feels he doesn’t deserve because of his oh-so-dark and tainted past. As he struggles with those feelings, he does his best to keep her safe and figure out who kidnapped her and brought her to sex island. And then someone is murdered, smothered by boobs fergodssakes, and a game of super sexy Clue begins.I’m not going to lie, this book is not going to be to everyone’s taste but I thought it was a joy to read. I’ve always loved the game of Clue and its over the top silly characters and this book seemed to take a lot of inspiration from it. There are greedy women, callous and arrogant men, a few misguided souls, quite a few murderous intentions and there’s a lot of kinky sex going on even as people continue to DIE. I basically loved it all. But I especially loved the complicated sexual tension between Sin and Portia. There was a lot of pain there for the two to wade through and all of it Sin’s fault because he had no willpower, was very broken and had very little self-esteem when they first fell in love. I don’t know if I totally buy into their HEA but I’m okay with that because there were some genuine feelings of love behind the whole mess and I do feel like Portia was a good match for The Randy Duke and went into it with her eyes wide open and well aware of his faults.If you’re looking for a decadent, erotic read and can suspend your disbelief about, well, about most of the things that happen here, then this one is for you!

Another not to be put down novel from Sharon Page. Sexy, steamy, and intriguing. Full of suspense and plot twists.

For some reason, I did not think that this book would be filled with orgies with graphic sex of all types involved. I had to finish the book because I wanted to see how the protagonists to ally resolved their situation.

Story Rating ~ 4 StarsHero Rating ~ 4 Stars!Heroine Rating ~ 5 Stars!Heat Level ~ 5 Stars!Ending ~ 4 Star!Overall Rating ~ 4 Stars!OH MY! This was one sinfully erotic historical read! It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book by Sharon Page and I’m glad I got the chance to read it.This story revolves around Sin, The Duke of Sinclair and a young woman named Portia Lamb. They were very much on love and were planning on getting married but Sin's past with some help from others got in the way and the marriage was called off leaving Portia devastated.10 years have gone by, Sin has thrown his life into sex and orgies. Portia has thrown her life into saving abused children but neither of them has ever really gotten over the love they shared.One day Portia receives a message about a little girl needing help. She and her maid are in a very bad part of town when Portia is kidnapped.Sin also receives a message that Portia has been taken to Serenity Island and Sin must attend the orgy if he wants to save her. He is told that he needs to go to the docks where a small boat is waiting to take him to the Island.Once on the Island, he runs into a lot of people that he has been involved with at the many orgies he has attended over the years. He also finds Portia who has been tied down to the bed in his appointed room.As the story revolves, it seems all the guests and the few servants that have been hired to attend the party have gotten notes that say that they will pay for their sins. As the orgy is just beginning, one of the guests has been murdered. No one knows who the killer is and one by one they are being murdered and with the weather being very bad there is no way off the Island.Sin and Portia team up to find out who the killer is. I must say that I had a feeling who the killer was but there was a few twists and turns that I did not see coming.The orgy scenes are VERY NAUGHTY! As a matter of fact they may be too much for some readers. I can’t stress this enough, if you are not into TRUE EROTICA then DON’T read this book. You can call me jaded if you want because I can honestly say I LIKED IT!My favorite character of this book was Portia. She did do a few dumb things but they were all in the name of helping others. She was quite intelligent, courageous and caring. I loved reading about how Sin introduced her to pleasure and how she turned into a brave and passionate woman.In the end, things worked out perfectly for Portia and Sin and now I find myself wanting to read the two previous books in this series. I truly hope I get a chance to fit them in because I’m all in for reading a sinfully erotic historical romance.Special Note : Even though this is the third book in the series, I read it just fine as a standalone.

Little bit out of my comfort zone... but loved the book !