In Sweet Temptation by Sarah Stuart, protagonist Michael Marsh, the Diamond Superstar, is remembering his wife Lizzie and how he had toured alone for years when Lisette and James were growing up. He thinks his other daughter, fifteen-year-old Greta, is too busy to miss him. Michael craves love and his thoughts turn to Evie Taylor, who was one of the team of detectives he had hired to find out who had murdered Lizzie. She was a great fan of his songs and there had been many occasions when they had been alone and he had held and kissed her. Though thirty years her senior, Michael and Evie fall in love and she moves in with the Diamond Superstar. As the story progresses, readers see Evie being in the hospital with an illness, Greta unhappy with the attention her father is giving Evie and rebelling, the Spy, a journalist who is out to destroy Michael Marsh, and Evie’s mother who is also an enemy. Will Michael and Evie be able to marry and lead a happy life together?

The plot has many layers to it and the author Sarah Stuart masterfully weaves them together, keeping up the tempo of events. The writing style is neat, simple, and elegant, yet assertive and strong. The passion and urgency between Michael and Evie is palpable to readers. All the characters have been portrayed well and they contribute to the story and complement the main characters, Michael and Evie, effectively. With his handsome looks and talent, Michael Marsh is definitely the most memorable character in a story that will fascinate and captivate readers. All the action happening in Sweet Temptation will keep readers glued till the end and make this a compelling read.

Welcome back to the revolving tale of secrets, betrayals, drama, and love that is the life of the Marsh family. Evie Taylor has loved Michael Marsh - The Diamond Superstar - for as long as she can remember. Fate finally brought them together, but under the most unfortunate circumstances when she helped solve his wife's murder, after which they went their separate ways. When Michael finally invites her into his life, she is hesitant as it means leaving her life behind for him. Right away, they are off to a rocky start with Michael wondering whether Evie is actually in love with him or if she is just another fan in love with his stage persona. Michael's baggage pushes them apart and, just when things are starting to look up, an old nemesis in the form of a mysterious journalist resurfaces, still determined to prove that the incest rumors surrounding the Marsh family are more than just rumors. However, just because she left her job does not mean that Evie left her skills behind, and she is ready to use them to put an end to the faceless enemy of the Marsh family.

Sweet Temptation by Sarah Stuart is yet another drama-filled episode in the Marsh family series. You will meet your favorite characters from the previous three books and some new ones as the web of secrets continues to entangle and untangle. Say what you may about the Marsh family, but as eccentric as they might be, at the end of the day they are a true family that shows up for each other when it counts, and once again Sarah Stuart brings this out perfectly. Even with all their ever-accumulating secrets and drama, one cannot help but fall in love with this unconventional family every single time.

Michael Marsh, superstar, is the key figure throughout this excellent series, and in this tale he takes centre stage once again. Love, hate, loyalty, friendship, deceit, terror, kidnap, passion, sex, incest, and more are intertwined to create a feast of entertainment.
In this story the author demonstrates not only a talent for storytelling, but skill in manipulating the plot to draw a reader to different conclusions. I’m widely read in genre and here I’m convinced I’ve found a romance writer who brings the best and worst aspects of a character to light - through dialogue.
As you will find through each episode of the Royal Command saga, the imagery and characterisation are superbly drawn. The situations, and importantly, the suspense and intrigue are brilliantly interwoven.
How much suspense can you get into a a steamy romance? If it’s one of Sarah Stuart’s stories - a lot.
For me, this was another well-constructed portion of a well-researched and skilfully written main story. I believe the numerous characters in the world of Michael Marsh could spawn more tales.

The Royal Command series, of which Sweet Temptation is Book Four, has been a roller-coaster ride of emotion. Michael Marsh and his ‘unconventional’ family have long suffered the consequences of Michael’s disastrous relationship with his daughter, Lisette.
Life is complicated further by Evie, Michael’s new love interest after two lonely years without Lizzie, who was his ‘one love’. When Evie falls desperately ill, he is left fighting a media troll, who wishes to destroy him and his family, and an evil future mother-in-law while trying to save the life of the women he loves who is in a coma.
Ms Stuart tackles the dark secrets of Michael’s celebrity lifestyle and the sacrifices his family must make to keep past scandal under wraps with insight, forgiveness, and feeling. The experiences of a coma victim are fascinating and compelling and provide a unique thread to the story. I love the characters, the unusual storyline, and the fact that this series just gets better and better.

Sweet Temptation is the latest book in the life of Michael Marsh, known as The Diamond Superstar.and his complicated family. Two years after Lizzie’s death, Michael has found someone to share his life with, Evie Taylor, but as always in the life of the Superstar, nothing is going to be simple. Can he trust Evie with the true stories of his children? Can this hard-nosed detective put aside her career to follow him around the world as he tours? Meanwhile his daughter, Greta is now fifteen and anxious to spread her wings. She seeks love and fame away from her father’s eagle eye and her normal teenage insecurities lead her to doubt his love for her. Sarah Stuart’s latest thriller is very fast-paced and will leave you breathless as you seek to keep up with the action. If you loved the first three books in the series you will not want to miss this one.

Sweet Temptation by Sarah Stuart continues the ongoing saga of the "Diamond Superstar", Michael Marsh, that readers have come to love over the years, through the first three books. Lizzie has been gone now for two years and Michael is looking again for love, companionship, and someone to stave off those awful nights when he cannot sleep alone. Evie Taylor was a private detective who worked for the firm Michael had used to find Lizzie's killer and he has fallen hopelessly in love with her. True romance never did run smoothly in this dysfunctional showbusiness family and this romance is no exception. Evie has a whole pile of skeletons in her closet as well and Michael will have to earn her trust and understanding, although Evie admits to having loved and adored the "Diamond Superstar" ever since she was a teenager.
This is an interesting move for Stuart's story, away a little bit from the fascinating dynamics of the incestuous, dysfunctional Marsh family, the family heritage that descended from Mary, Queen of Scots, and more toward a simple, straightforward relationship - rest assured, though, the familiar tensions within the family are still there. I enjoyed this story very much and it is a testament to Stuart's development as an author, over the four books, that you can see, as a reader, a subtlety and nuance to the character's interactions and relationships that have developed over the course of this series. An excellent book and the question remains - will there be a number five to this series. I do hope so. Good job Sarah Stuart!

Great story with a mix of inter-weaving plot-lines, involving steamy romance, sizzling-hot passion, intrigue, drama, even incest, at least the accusation of it, and sinister characters and motives. The central characters are Michael Marsh, The Diamond Superstar, the famous singer, and the much younger Evie Taylor, who works for a detective agency, who confront together the obstacles facing them in the development and fulfillment of their relationship. The obstacles are indeed many: amongst them are an illness which might destroy everything; Greta, Michael's jealous daughter; and The Spy, the ruthless, malign journalist intent on destroying Michael's career by any means, fair or foul, normally quite foul and quite evil, to the extent of involving children, incest and physical harm. The book is extremely well-written, and had me hooked from the start. The characters are believable and authentic in their portrayal, and yet the arena in which the incidents of their lives are played out is dramatic, thrilling, emotionally-charged and momentous, let alone titillating, passionate and raw. Classic ingredients for a steamy, no-holds-barred romance and melodrama full of twists and turns and unexpected developments. Great stuff.

Even as a teenager, Evie Taylor has idolized Michael Marsh, the "Diamond Superstar" When she has an opportunity to meet him, Evie thought she had died and gone to heaven. She may very well have ended up in hell, because the arrangement Michael offered her was not what she’d expected at all. In the meantime, she becomes gravely ill: will Michael acknowledge his love for Evie as she lay in the hospital or will be still consider her too young for him. And then there’s the subplot with Michael’s daughter, Greta, the sex-trafficking ring and child porn, and the book goes from a simple romance novel to a powerful story of love, betrayal, suspense and conflict. There’s lots of emotion to satisfy the suspense thriller and enough romance to please the romance lover.

From start to finish, this is a book I thoroughly enjoyed. I am not a big romance reader but I have read Sarah Stuart before so it was easy to come back to her fluid style and entertaining plotlines. I got quickly lost in the story here and with my number one criteria for a five-star read being storytelling this book began with five stars from the tense opening and I can highly recommend Sweet Temptation to you even if like me you may be tempted to avoid the genre. The key to the enjoyment of Sweet Temptation is a combination of strong character development and simple prose that draws you in as a reader and takes you through a whole gamut of emotions along with the characters. Top marks. Pick this one up.

After reading book three, Dynasty of Deceit you know there would be a book 4. At the time I remember thinking 'how is Sarah Stuart going to pull this off?'

I started the series a while back and loved each and everyone of them so, I was eager to pick Sweet Temptation up. My question above was easily answered - she did pull it off and in a big way! I have never wavered with the series or felt bogged down as you can find some series - and most become stilted or bogged down - BUT not with this final book. As with the books prior to Sweet Temptation it is well written, characters jump out at you - and remain with you, even all their mannerisms and idiosyncrasies.

It has been a great series and I have genuinely enjoyed following Michael Marsh. The underlying current in this story began with his incestuous affair, for me, making him a larger than life character. Stuart makes him, and her other characters real. It may be recommended that each of these books can be read as standalones - I say this is true but why deprive your self of the WHOLE story?