Devil in Winter, the third in the Wallflowers series by Lisa Kleypas, focuses on Evie Jenner, an extremely shy member of the group of four women who have nicknamed themselves the Wallflowers and vowed to help each other find husbands. Evie’s temerity and stammer have made her chances at a match almost nonexistent, and her mother’s strict family refuses to allow her to see her ailing father. Desperate, Evie turns to the one person she knows to be equally driven to change his circumstances, Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, possibly the most dissolute rake in London.

In this book, Kleypas examines the relationship between two people of far different temperaments and expectations of life. Evie and Sebastian are both endearing characters whom you can’t help but root for. The book is fast-paced and introduces some interesting new side characters while including some from the previous two books as well. It directly follows the events of the second book, It Happened One Autumn, and draws heavily on many of those events and relationships.