Her Wicked Libertine by Lisa TorquayMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Her Wicked Libertine is, as you would expect, a story about a man who is hardly a 'gentle' man. Harris Darroch is a businessman, but if he works hard, he plays even harder and with little thought for anything other than his own pleasure. Edwina Whitman is everything he is not. Refined, gentle, proper and certainly not knowledgable in the pleasures of the flesh. When she goes to Darroch to try and convince him to forgive one of her late fathers' debts. He agrees, eventually, but only if she offers herself as payment.
Of course, when she has no choice but to accept his terms, it isn't long between the fire between them begins to burn brightly and they cannot keep their hands off one another. Can Darroch learn to see her as anything other than a temporary pleasure? Can Edwina tame the famous libertine into a loving partner? That would just be telling.
The only thing I would mention is that this isn't a book that adheres slavishly to historical fact and if that's important to you, then this might not be for you. Edwina behaves in a way that a lady of the time just wouldn't, I know that is addressed a little in the book, but really it isn't that realistic. She also works producing lace, I think it highly unlikely that she would be working for herself and still accepted as a member of the ton, it's simply not done darling.
That all said, this was a good read. Edwina was a little too tightly laced, to begin with, but Darroch certainly brought her out of herself. I'd certainly be keen to check out the next in the series.
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