Favourite Scene: (he's undressing her after their wedding, such reverence! I could visualize this scene)
But he didn't make any response to her slightly nervous comment.
Instead he dropped down on one knee in front of her and started to kiss
his way around the bare flesh at top of her stocking, pausing to slowly
unclip her suspenders and then roll the fine silk down her leg,
following it with the caress of his lips.
My Review:
Good story. This is about Lucy, who has had a crush on the hero since college, she thought it was unreciprocated, so she went on the defensive and married another man, who turned out to be a sleaze ball who cheated on her, ruined her business financially, and then ran out. So now Lucy is divorced and trying to get her business back on it's feet. She meets Marcus again and because she's drunk she hits on him and he for some reason doesn't knock her back. Having spent the night together, all of a sudden Marcus sees Lucy as a good potential wife of convenience, it's time he marries, so why not Lucy?
Not the most romantic way to marry, I wish there had been a few hints dropped along the way that Marcus was in love with Lucy, and that Marcus had been TEMPTED by Lucy over the years. We don't get the impression that Marcus was even really attracted to her in the past, and I think he should have been. Lucy gets blackmailed, and that starts spoiling their new marriage. The hero doesn't save Lucy from the blackmailer, Lucy saves the hero from being harmed by the blackmailer, so it's a reversal and the hero isn't really the protective alpha male you'd expect in a HP. It's a passionate read, with a history between the characters, which is positive.
Rating: 3/5 stars, a pretty good tale, with some things I would just have personally liked done different.
