This book had some great elements, the beautiful, intelligent, but tainted British young lady, a mysterious pirate,the young lady's father who betrothed her to an much older man, and then her cousin and a kidnapping. The thing that ruined it for me was that the heroine, Season, made love with two men, who turned out to be the same man, and she never suspected! Yes,the Raven (the pirate), wore a mask during the day and came to her at night unmasked, in the dark and also spoke in a raspy voice. But still, she wouldn't recognize his smell or his physique or the hairy chest, etc? He is also insanely jealous of himself in the story-huh? The author tries to make you think the Raven could be someone else, so he sometimes has inner dialogue that wouldn't make sense when he is the same person. Also, he leaves the heroine, once they have married, alone for long periods of time, usually has not told her he was even leaving, and doesn't explain where he has been, and she gets a little mad but always forgives him.If you can get past all that, you will really enjoy the story, but definitely not a keeper for me. ( )