When you dance with the devil, you hold hands with temptation...
Blurb: "Christian Montcalm was a disarming rogue. Finding himself in financial difficulties, he brazenly set out to seduce and wed an heiress. But there was a most intriguing obstacle to his success... Miss Annelise Kempton was determined to stand between her young charge and this unrepentant rake. Montcalm's plans would fail--she would personally see to it. All that stood in her way was a man whose glittering charm could tempt a saint to sin, or consign a confirmed spinster to sleepless nights of longing. But she was strong enough to resist him...wasn't she?"
Review:
My first Anne Stuart and the one that made me want to track down her backlist. I’m a sucker for her bad boys, real rakes and morally ambiguous heroes. I love how they're darker and edgier and how she redeems them. In Devil’s Waltz, she creates a Georgette Heyer sort of world, only darker. I didn’t like Christian at first and not having not come across an Anne Stuart hero before didn’t have a clue how she’d be able to pull off his redemption. Silly me… Annelise was also strongly characterised in that both she and society see her as a plain spinster (silly them)…but Christian sees beneath the glasses, the shapeless clothing, etc, to the woman underneath (and no he doesn't have x-ray vision). She’s a very strong heroine and her vulnerability is brilliantly done. Released as a Super Historical in the UK, this felt like a single title painted on a larger canvas, but with loads of lovely interaction between Christian and Annelise, lots of dialogue and sexual tension, and they were never apart for long so there weren’t any boring bits for me to skim 
. There’s enough drama to keep even a drama queen like me happy and it starts from the first page where Annelise, who is staying at the home of someone who seems a bit shady, is thrown into ~Christian's path. All that and slavery and smuggling
5 stars.
Obviously a keeper, deserving of its place among my favourite-favourites.
Sue – anxiously waiting for Amazon to deliver AS’s latest, Fire and Ice.
