Lady Seductress’s Ball By Eliza Knight

olidunwall Romance novelist Eliza Knight weaves a tale that indulges her female reader’s wildest fantasies. Her recent historical romance Lady Seductress’s Ball has the lustful dialogue of novels from buy essay professional Danielle Steele with all the carnal delights of works by author Jackie Collins. Knight’s story reads like a step by step guide to the fundamentals of a man and woman making love. She provides instructions on the rudiments of inciting a woman’s baser needs and how to sate her temporal desires.

Tristan Knightley, the Earl of Newcastle is one of the most eligible bachelors in Regency England’s haute ton. Knight makes it clear that he attracts every female in his vicinity whether married, widowed or single, but the one woman he desires most is Olivia Covington, Lady March who is married to the elderly Earl of March.
Lady March is curious about the passions between a man and a woman, and Tristan has been rumored to be passionate lover. Unfamiliar with the baser needs of the flesh as her husband is too feeble to incite such passion in her, Olivia confines herself to dreaming about her Prince Charming until she is given an opportunity to host a ball at March House. She invites Tristan who is introduced to her by her husband, and almost immediately their attraction is inflamed.

Knight is very explicit about describing their sexual escapades which includes a lewd scene in the March House’s gazebo and again at an orgy hosted by Lady Seductress, a close acquaintance of Tristan’s. Ruefully, Knight fails to convince the reader that Olivia and Tristan’s interest in each other is anything more than physical attraction. When Olivia’s elderly husband dies of natural causes, Tristan does the honorable deed of asking for her hand in marriage, but the union is uninspiring and vacant of anything other than a raw, lascivious attraction.

Knight’s provocative language stirs carnal delights but she offers nothing more solid for Olivia and Tristan. For instance, Olivia is equally aroused at the orgy by Adam Longford who is replaced by Tristan in the middle of their dalliance, leading the reader to believe that Olivia and Tristan’s affair won’t be a monogamous one.

Knight brings her reader’s wildest fantasies to light in Lady Seductress’s Ball, but passion is purely a physical exchange in her novel. Though she closes with a happy ending, the only bond holding the story together is a physical one which is destined to lose its luster over time.