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"Unique, refreshing, absorbing historical romance."
Reviewed by Suan Wilson
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted March 9, 2004

After a disastrous year of marriage, Helene, the Countess Godwin, fled back to her mother's home. She spent the last nine years remaining virtuous and ignoring her husband's outrageous follies. Tired of watching her friends marry and start their families, Helene decides it's time to take charge of her life. Read more...

"Fun Regency romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 15, 2004

In 1806 Helene and Rees Holland eloped in what seemed like a love match. However, something went wrong and a decade later they live apart with Helene wanting a divorce so that she can marry someone else. She has no suitor, but desperately wants a child like all Read more...

Summary

Helene, the Countess Godwin, knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all, she's been one for ten long years while her scoundrel of a husband lives with strumpets and causes scandal after scandal. So she decides it's time for a change -- she styles her hair in the newest, daring mode, puts on a shockingly transparent gown, and goes to a ball like Cinderella, hoping to find a prince charming to sweep her off her feet...and into his bed. But instead of a prince, she finds only her own volatile, infuriatingly handsome...husband, Rees, the Earl Godwin. They'd eloped to Gretna Green in a fiery passion, but passion can sometimes burn too hot to last. But now, Rees makes her a brazen offer, and Helene decides to become his wife again...but not in name only. No, this time she decides to be very, very wicked indeed.