Vanessa can’t let Raven into her heart, her life. She has many secrets that she wants to remain secrets. For Raven, being part of Vanessa’s life means giving some trust, some secrets up, even if initially he doesn’t want to do that either. However, as the passion and unacknowledged love grows between them, they both realize something has to give. Will they make that decision together or will all the secrets keep them apart?

Midnight Temptation is the second story in Dee Tenorio’s emotional Remington series. Raven was enigmatic and elusive in the first and there’s not a lot of initial change in his character. However, as the love story develops, and as some surprising personal information comes to light, Raven realizes to handle it all, he’s going to have to let go of something. I felt Ms. Tenorio did a strong job of creating plausible reasons for both her protagonists’ skittishness with each other. They have both faced a lot of hurt and loneliness in their personal lives so watching them slowly but surely being drawn together was well drawn out and emotionally dynamic. Several of the twists and turns in this book have yet to be fully played out so I’m excited to see how Ms. Tenorio handles them in the next story.

Midnight Temptation can easily be read alone, though its emotions are perhaps magnified more when having read Midnight Sonata first. Either way, Dee Tenorio will certainly become a must-buy author after reading this book.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Very sensual

Reviewer: Sarah W
January 16, 2007