Delilah

Name: Delilah
Rating: 4.6 (401 reviews)

by Angela Hunt Book 3 in the Dangerous Beauty series.

First published 2016

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Abandoned and exploited, Delilah resolves to gain the wealth and security that men have denied her. When she encounters Samson, the feared Hebrew champion whose strength threatens Philistine power, attraction and calculation become inseparable: the rulers of the cities offer her the means to transform her life if she can discover his secret.

Hunt reconstructs motives the Book of Judges does not explain, portraying betrayal as the culmination of injury, ambition and a dangerous intimacy rather than a single act of seduction. Samson’s calling and Delilah’s hunger for independence collide in a story where both misuse gifts and desire, and where victory cannot shield either person from the moral cost of treating love as power.