{Book Review} The Virgin (The Original Sinners - The White Years #3) by Tiffany Reisz (@TiffanyReisz @HarlequinBooks)

The provocative story before the story continues in the critically acclaimed

and award-winning series The Original Sinners.

For years, Kingsley Edge warned Eleanor the day would come when she, the mistress of a well-respected Catholic priest, would have to run. She always imagined if that day came, she'd be running with Søren. Instead, she's running from him.

Fearing Søren and Kingsley will use their power and influence to bring her back, Eleanor takes refuge at the one place the men in her life cannot follow. Behind the cloistered gates of the convent where her mother has taken orders, Eleanor hides from the man she loves and hates in equal measure.

With Eleanor gone, the lights have gone out in Kingsley's kingdom. When he learns the reason she left, he, too, turns his back on Søren and runs. On a beach in Haiti, Kingsley meets Juliette, the one woman who could save him from his sorrows. But only if he can save her first.

Eleanor can hide from Søren but she can't hide from her true nature. A virginal novice at the abbey sends Eleanor down a path of sexual awakening, but to follow this path means leaving her lover behind, a sacrifice Eleanor refuses to make.

The lure of the forbidden, the temptation to sin and the price of passion have never been higher, and Eleanor and Kingsley will have to pay it if they ever want to go home again.

Elle has come to a crossroads.  With her body and soul shattered, she runs away from everyone and everything she knows and seeks shelter in the one place where nothing can touch her – a convent. 

But even there, she can’t get away from her true nature.  Lighting the way is a beautiful young novice who both reaffirms her faith and tests her restraint.  Kyrie becomes the spark of inspiration that is exactly what Elle needs to heal her broken spirit.  But she never expected Kyrie would break her heart as well.

The girl, using her mother as a shield of sorts, glanced up to the window again and stared straight at Elle. And then— and Elle was entirely certain she didn’t imagine it— the girl winked at her. Elle laughed and shook her head. Then she composed her face. If Mother Prioress had told her one time, she’d told her a thousand times— behave. 

She wrenched herself away from the window and promptly resolved to forget she’d seen that beautiful girl and her mysterious wink. After all, she was about to become a nun and nuns had to abide by vows. Vows of obedience and vows of chastity. 

Then again, when had a little thing like a vow of chastity ever stopped Elle before?

Kingsley Edge has always held on to the hope that he would one day become a father.  When that possibility was taken from him, he wandered the globe in search of something to take away the pain. 

In Haiti, he encounters a woman so rare and beautiful that he can hardly believe that she’s real.  Like him, she’s without hope – and King will stop at nothing to make sure that she will have it once again.

“It’s a miracle, isn’t it?” Kingsley said. “After all we put each other through that we’re still together. All of us. A fucking miracle.”

Nora laughed. “Miracle is the word for it.”

The Virgin is a book that will literally hold you captive and make you love it!  At its heart, it’s absolutely melancholy for each of Tiffany’s beloved characters are set adrift with no rescue in sight.  But in her eloquent and ever kinky way, she leads them to the high ground with equal amounts of sizzling sex, wicked humor and joyful tears. 

This is by far my favourite of series so far and I know that I say that with each new book that Tiffany writes but once you’re an Original Sinner – you never look back…

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