All About Passion

When a man schemes to secure a convenient, passionless marriage, fate has other plans — and those plans come in the form of a woman who is anything but convenient. All About Passion centers on a hero who believes he has outmaneuvered romance entirely, only to find himself outmaneuvered by a heroine of genuine fire and intelligence. The tension between what Chillingworth thinks he wants and what he actually needs gives this story its emotional engine, and Stephanie Laurens keeps that engine running at full pressure from the opening pages to the last.

As the seventh book in the Cynster series, this novel rewards readers who have followed the family while remaining entirely engaging on its own terms. Laurens writes with a particular gift for slow-burning attraction — the kind that builds through sharp exchanges and charged silences rather than grand declarations. Her Regency world feels inhabited rather than merely decorated, and her heroine is drawn with enough complexity to make the romance feel genuinely earned. Readers who respond to strong-willed women meeting equally stubborn men will find this one especially satisfying.