There are longer review and summaries of this book, so I will be very brief. It is an entertaining and easy read. You will like the hero and heroine in this heartwarming, but somewhat dark love story. It is somewhat predictable, but from a purely entertainment viewpoint it succeeds very well. Read The Duke first in the series and then this one. Lord of Ice follows.

Lord Lucien Knight has a problem. He has an intruder in his house that may thwart his carefully laid plans. Revell Court is an estate Lucien inherited from his father, which he converted into his "fortress of sin", a discreet house of pleasure catering to his guests' ever whim. Shrouded in secrecy is the true purpose for Revell Court. It is a listening post for the government's secret service, designed to lure top international spies into its net and extract information from them.

Into this snare walks Alice Montague. She has arrived to fetch her sister-in-law, Caro, and take her home because Harry, Caro's son, is sick. Caro is Lucien's mistress. Lucien is immediately taken with Alice not only because of her beauty but her innocence. His work and his life experiences have made him into a cynical and distrustful man, and to know there is someone of such innocence who exists in this world is refreshing but almost hard to believe. He designs a plan of his own to keep Alice at Revell Court for a week to which she reluctantly agrees.

Meanwhile, Lucien finds out that his nemesis, a French spy named Bardou, is alive and preparing to wreak havoc in London. Lucien drops off Alice in Bath and orders her to stay away from London. Alice doesn't listen. She follows Caro and Harry to London and refuses to listen to reason when Lucien tries to persuade her to leave. I'll end the summary here.

Lucien is a likable character. He is not as dark as his twin Damien but Lucien is, all the same, haunted by the atrocities of war and estrangement from his brother. He and Damien had a falling out because Lucien opted to go into Diplomatic services instead of continuing his service as a military officer. He longs for something pure or good in his life that will help him to believe again that uprightness and wholesomeness do exist in his world; that there is a noble purpose to his mission.

While I love Gaelen Foley's Knight Series, I think, however, that Lord of Fire is the weakest of the group. This latest tale about Lord Lucien Knight and Alice Montague fell far short of Lord of Ice, the story about Damien Knight. The storyline was not quite as good nor the characters quite as impressive. The female characters are infuriating. I couldn't, for example, bring myself to even like Alice. She may be beautiful with plenty of goodness in her to "save" Lucien, but she was also mind-numbingly stupid. If you were dating one of England's top secret agents and he warned you to stay away from London because something disastrous was going to happen, would you blithely walk into the enemy's snare because you were angry with your boyfriend? That's Alice for you. What a self-centered, dull-witted girl.

This book is full of passion, lust, love and adventure. Lucien Knight is a tormented twin on the verge of venturing over to the dark side forever until he meets the virginal, angelic beauty Alice Montague. Lucien is wrestling with his past full of tormented secrets and lies and has dealt with so much hate that he feels he has very little good left in him. None of the 'ton' hold him in high esteem, not even his heroic war hero of a twin brother Damien. Because of Lucien's career/moral (he's a spy for the crown) choices Lucien loses the love of the one person who's ever really loved him...his brother. Alice is the sister-in-law of the evil Caro, who's husband (Alice's brother) was married to (before he died). Caro is Lucien's mistress and has abandoned her son Harry in the care of Alice to pursue her own selfish and lusty needs. One night Alice had enough of hearing poor little Harry cry for his mama (sad) and she goes on a search to hunt down Caro and bring her home to her responsabilities as a mother at once. On her search for Caro at Lucein's Revell Court she finds herself in a secret underground called the 'grotto'. A world of lust, orgies, secrets and danger. She also finds herself standing in the face of the beautifully wicked Lucien Knight. And this is only the beginning.... I won't tell more because I don't want to give anything away, but you can see by what I wrote the tone of the book. It is dark, hot, sensual, steamy, passionate and it is very, very sweet as well. It's not all about sex and lust, so don't get me wrong...but the sexual tension in this book between Alice and Lucien is enough to keep you flipping the pages. Lucien's hopes is that Alice's good spirit will rub off on him because he has a lost soul and she is everything he isn't. She's goodness and light and he's dark and mysterious who doesn't feel worthy of someone so good as Alice, but here's the twist..he is good and he is worthy and Alice is the only one who can make him believe it. He is so sweet in moments of this book that you want to steal him from Alice yourself!!! And for those of you who've read it ....when he gave her that key on the pillow.....AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! I melted. Him giving her that key said so much about him at that moment. Sigh!!!

I won't give away more as this is just the beginning and the story is really great. I only gave this book 4 stars because it's not as good as other's I've read of Gaelen's, but I recommend it nonetheless because the love story is really amazing. There is a lot more to this story, a whole sub-plot of espionage and a hunt for the man who tortured Lucien years before. Read it, you won't regret it. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!

Story of Lucien Knight (Lucifer) and Alice Montague (Please read synopsis on main page)

If there are candles burning, you know exactly how bright, and at the dinner table, with each course you can almost smell its delicious scent. If it is a perfect day, with the sun shinning so bright or a rainy Sunday with clouds looming, you know exactly how it feels, As soon as you step into the Knight house on James Street each meticulously placed furniture is as if you placed it there and decorated the huge hall leading to the various rooms, when you set foot into the Groto in the under belly of Revell Court (Lucifer's Lair) you are immediately engulfed in all the pleasures of sin and when, my dear, when Lucifer's lips brushes Alice's that very first time, you tremble beneath his arms like she does because it all seems as though you are standing right there and experiencing it all. Ladies (and some gentlemen), that is a complete experience of reading Gaelen Foley's Lord of Fire.....it's description of every detail is complete and leaves you fulfiled and not wanting.
Lord of fire lacks any adjective available to describe it, it completely engulfs you from Page one till the end.
This is the first book that I rate a perfect A++++, I've yet to read another that comes remotely close.

I honestly lost a whole night of sleep because I could not put this book down. When I started to read it, I was at work, it seem so intimate that no other place to read it would do but the comfort of my home, in my bedroom.
This book is worth every single penny.

To those who have already read the book, tell me the chapter where lucifer worked out didn't have your heart racing!!!!!!!

I guess how much you like a given romance novel depends on where it falls in the queue of romance novels you have already read.

For me, Lord of Fire was an absolutely heart-palpitating favorite. I loved Lucien. He captured my imagination as the ideal "wicked but not really" hero. I loved the heroine. She was the perfect blend of fiestiness and wide-eyed innocence for me, still a wide-eyed innocent myself, to completely "buy" and understand. And, the book was exciting. Their tense, sometimes romantic, sometimes almost violent exchanges (not just sex, but everything) thrilled me.
Moreover, I fell in love with Lucien. He was so enigmatic - at times breathtakingly romantic and at other, harsh and impenetrable. I adored the book and couldn't get enough of him.
And, since I couldn't get enough of him, after I finished Lord of Fire, I voraciously kept searching for more books like it. And, not too surprisingly, I found them. Lucien, after all, is not too rare as far as romance heros go, I now realize. And, I am not sure, but I think that if I had gotten to one of the others before I did to him, I would have fallen in love with "Alastair" or "Devon", and thought that Lucien was just a poor stereotype.

But, if you enjoy tenderness and harshness, and crave to fall for an enigmatic man who can remain aloof and unaffected by perversions while falling helplessly inlove with an angelic girl, then how can I not recommend one of my faverite romance novels ever?

Other books I enjoyed for pretty much the same reasons as above(and I bet I have read as many as you!) include:
Jane Berry's "Grand Illusions", Catherine Coulter's "Rebel Bride" and "Lord Harry" and Joan Wolf's "the Gamble". Also good, but not really romance novels, are "the Gambler's Rose" and O. Henry's short story "The stockbroker's marriage".