This book really annoyed me through most of it. The beginning was fine, but once they started sleeping together it got really bad. The dude kept a harem on board his ship but he got mad that she had a few sex toys lying around and had slept with other guys before him? But then he's with her and he's fine with her past, but she says she wont marry him so he suddenly gets mad about her past again. And the girl, who's married to an abusive jerk, refuses to divorce him because shes afraid the Queen of England might not like it. But the worst part was the end, for some reason romance novelists think they need to make the end of their books have completely out of place peril. The girl is kidnapped by the husband and he threatens to kill her because he wants ALL of her money instead of the huge amounts she already gives him. The sex scenes were probably the best part of the book and I hate saying that because I like to have a good story, but it just wasn't that good. ( )

Well, with a cover like this I guess I should have known what I was getting myself into. There's not much more to this than sex - lots of it and very hot, but that's all there is really. So that's what the stars are for. I guess the heroine, Countess Angela de Grae is kind of interesting in that she's an older woman famous for her numerous liaisons. She's even had an affair with the prince. Johnson apparently based her off of an historical figure, Daisy Warrick, a late Victorian socialite who, in addition to having many affairs, was involved in social and education reform. Johnson also provides footnotes to the text. Since I love footnotes, the stars are for those too. But, besides some cool history trivia (all you could ever want to know about the history of contraception, among other things), character and plot don’t go beyond two beautiful people with a lot of stamina. ( )