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Ugh. I had forgotten the predetermined ending with Jocelyn‘s pregnancy. This trope is so overused as to be offputting. But, who am I to cavil?

”Truthfully, never did I expect you to enthrall me as you have.” “… and I began to fear your lure. I withdrew, uncomfortable with the intensity of my emotions. The last time I felt anything close to this, I fought a Dual over a married woman… Whom society still believes I murdered. “

“You infuriate me, “he growled. “I do not know if I should beat you, strangle you, or kiss you.”

Follows seduction on the desk. This is why even the novella is eminently satisfying.

Sebastian speaks of her defiance, and punishment of punishment or beating.

Her jaw dropped in outrage. “You arrogant, egotistical, unfeeling beast! “
she launched herself at him
He had truly enraged his Duchess

His response? Abrupt desire.

I sometimes wish Stacy Reid would pay a little bit more attention to accuracy. A tea gown never would have the breasts uncovered.

“Enough, Madam.”
“I neither want nor require your love, Jocelyn. Do not speak of such things. “

The fat is in the fire

Mention of Sebastian‘s mistress was an enormous, unforgivable error. The withdrawal was complete.

She had thought him cold and remote before, but it was as if he became the very God of ice and snow.

Make no trespass towards the Dowager Duchess

To arrive back from her home to the Duke’s estate in time for the evening meal, she would’ve had to fly

Stacy Reid has forced us to a suspension of belief
Which I do not particularly like, and it was unnecessary
Travel between Norfolk and Lincolnshire by horse is measured in days not hours
Insofar as concerns, the lawyer, travel between Norfolk and London must have been by train

When Jocelyn awoke, she was certain she was in love.

The beginning of, uh-oh a no no. Already hinted at was her heartbreak. The Duke had had nothing but painful experiences with the perfidy of women. She was to be no exception.

“Bloody hell,” she whispered against his lips long moments later, her frame still trembling from the mind numbing pleasure.

Stacy Reid has just given us one of the most incredible seductions in the most delicate and deeply sensual prose of any romance author

… destroying her with the electric sensations he sent flooding through her entire body

Get the fans!

In two strides, he was directly in front of her. Then he reached out, hauled her into his arms. And he took.

With the most minimal of words, Stacy Reid has set the scene for a, no other word for it, devastating seduction.

“… his unfaithful bitch of a mother loved her paramour unashamedly and unreservedly, and she’d abhorred, the touch of his father, who worshiped the ground she walked on. “

So let’s get right down to it.
No more amor, Paramour

I know I am being picky, but there was no such thing as a chiffon peignoir in the late 19 century

Unfortunately, our heroine is TSTL.
“ she wondered if he would be able to tell”
Tell what, you ask? I am not TSTL.

Our leading lady, our heroine is “ deplorably honest.”

Norfolk to Lincolnshire could not have been accomplished by horseback or by a carriage with six horses within a day. But who cares?

I can’t imagine what 40,000 acres encompasses. Even Paul Mellon’s estate in Upperville wasn’t that large, and that was a small village.

..,It was an atrocity not to be married in a wedding gown fashioned by Worth from Paris.

He would keep her-and himself-well, pleasured, day and night, riding her long, slow, and deep. If she then still had the withal to find a lover, he would either tip his hat to her or banish her.

Of the many authors of historical romance, Stacy Reid has a delicacy, even when her dialogue plunges the reader into detailed intimacy. and then give us a sentence of pure romance. In this, she is a master.

“You mistook me for a gentleman? How naïve. For I am still trying to determine if I will take you before you leave.”
galloping progress…

It seems I have read this before, but it has snared me without hesitation again.
“ scorching proficiency”
Excellent