Elizabeth Hoyt is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical romance. Since 2006, Elizabeth has published over twenty books with Grand Central Publishing. Elizabeth received great acclaimed with The Raven Prince, her debut novel that was a Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Sensual Historical Romance. Elizabeth has published an array of trilogies and on-going series such as The Princes Trilogy, Legend of the Four Soldiersseries and Maiden Lane series, all set during the Georgian Period in eighteenth century England.


The Raven Prince, the first book in The Princes Trilogy is about Anna Wren, a widow in financial straits. Anna becomes the personal secretary to Edward de Raff, the Earl of Swartingham. Edward has a reputation of being boorish and surly, as well as having trouble keeping the secretaries he hires. Edward thinks he’s ugly because of his smallpox scars. Anna finds him very attractive because of his hard working nature, intelligence and the way he respects her as an employee. But Anna wants to change their impersonal business arrangement into a more intimate one, which will turn Edward’s life upside down, but for the better.

Anna and Edward are not the typical type of characters found in most historical romances. Both are in their thirties, have average looks and are very stubborn. Edward is lonely and only buys female companionship. Anna is a sensual women who turns to Edward for intimacy in a very unique and unexpected way that will delight readers.

The Raven Prince takes the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale and gives it a lovely spin in this mature, sexy love story romance readers will adore.

In 2008, the Legend of the Four Soldiers series was published. The second book, To Seduce a Sinner is my personal favorite because the Plain Jane heroine gets her Prince Charming, a hero who is always quick with a joke, but hides emotional and mental traumas he has sustained from war.

Jasper Renshaw, Viscount Vale, has been left at the altar after courting his betrothed for months. Things get a bit strange when a plain looking woman in a brown dress, who is a distant relative of his ex-fiancé, asks for his hand in marriage. Since Jasper does need to marry, he accepts.

Melisande Flemings has loved Jasper for as long as she can remember. She knows she’s plain and unassuming, but now that Jasper is free, she will finally have him as her husband. She will keep her true feelings a secret because she was hurt once before from a man she loved.

Jasper isn’t sure what to think of his lady wife. He soon finds himself enamored with Melisande because she’s a mystery he would like to solve. Jasper's life is full of mysteries because he’s searching for the man who betrayed him and his troops when they were at war in the colonies. He’s still haunted by the torture and deaths of his men. With Melisande by his side, he feels a sense of peace. He plans on cracking her polite demeanor and find the passionate women she hides from the world. Melisande becomes the light in Jasper’s dark world.

Elizabeth delivers another superb tale of heartbreak and loss that can only be cured through love.

This relationship between husband and wife builds very slowly. When both begin to fall in love with one another, their passion explodes, and their loves scenes are very emotional and heated. Jasper is able to break through Melisande's emotions, and she in turn helps him heal. To Seduce a Sinner is everything you expect in a romance.

The Maiden Lane series was published in 2010. There are currently six books released, with a seventh coming in October. The first book, Wicked Intentionsintroduces the widowed Temperance Dews who runs a foundling home with her brother Winter, in St. Giles, London’s most notorious slum. Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire searches for his mistress’s murderer and seeks aid from Temperance, as his guide. In turn he will help find a new patron for the home.

Temperance is a decent and proper minded women who partners with a bad boy type of hero who has no qualms about seducing her while he carries on with his mission. Temperance and Lazarus have a smoldering combustible affair that leads to an incredible bond and an all-consuming love.

But if there is one book that stands above all the rest in the Maiden Lane series, it’s Scandalous Desires, the third book published in 2011.

Silence Hollingbrook lost her husband almost a year ago after he was lost at sea. She has become a foster mother to an infant girl she named Mary Darling after Mary was left on her doorstep as a newborn. Silence still mourns the loss of her husband, Will, but they were barely on speaking terms after she saved him from going to prison by appealing to Mickey, the proclaim king of the St. Giles underbelly after Mickey stole items from the ship Will was in charge of keeping safe. She sacrificed herself to save Will and ended up spending the night with Mickey, although she swears nothing happened between them. Along with her reputation in tatters, her husband didn’t believe her and he went away to sea and died.

Mary Darling has been snatched from Silence by none other than Mickey, who happens to be her father. He has taken Mary because his mortal enemy, Charlie Grady, the Vicar of Whitechapel has it in for him. Mickey wants to protect Mary, or so he tells Silence. They make a bargain where she’ll stay because she's the only mother Mary has known.

Mickey may have grown up in the gutter and had to lie, cheat and steal for the bounty he now owns, but he can’t figure out how to get through to Silence. He aches to possess her, but he has a fight on his hands when it comes to her because she blames him for the shakiness of her marriage which indirectly led to her husband’s death.

As Charlie Grady ups his threats, Mickey is forced to take action in order to protect not only Mary and Silence, but his faithful servants who would die for him. Mickey makes no excuses for what he had to do in order to get what he wanted in life. Silence breaks down those walls Mickey has constructed, including a few insights on the man that will make readers sigh.

Elizabeth gives a great amount of depth within these pages. Charlie is a nasty piece of work, but he’s not one-dimensional. His rage and hate for Mickey is justified in his eyes. There’s some major twists in regards to their relationship and why they want to destroy one another. Also, the mystery of that forbidden night between Mickey and Silence is solved, and explained amazing well why Mickey did what he did. It was a selfish move on his part, but helps move along his relationship with Silence.

The love scenes are smoldering, intense and borderline erotic. Scandalous Desires is an all-encompassing romance that packs quite the punch.

Elizabeth Hoyt has become a staple of the historical romance genre with her wonderfully crafted and sophisticated tales.