There isn’t anything wrong with Helen, either.Winterborne is also loving and protective, hates the people you would expect him to hate, and takes care of the people he loves. He’s rich so Helen’s family is happy about the marriage. Yes, he’s common born, but that lets him be progressive and alpha and endearing to modern readers. Rhys has no faults as far as I can see.Likewise there’s a plot twist near the end that was meant to raise the stakes but only raised my hackles instead.Everyone says not to tell Rhys – he would never forgive her! Don’t throw away your chance at marriage! But the reader knows he will forgive her on the spot. The whole plot revolves around a secret Helen has, one she finds out maybe a quarter of the way through the novel.The secondary characters are fleshed out wonderfully, especially the women working for Winterborne.Rhys is romantic, the sex scenes are hot, and if you’re into period detail it’s here (“each glove is so delicate, it can be enclosed in the shell of a walnut”).
There was enough information to jog my memory about the couple, who had a lot of goings on in the first book of the series.The writing is on par with the rest of her work, and I can’t find any fault with the words themselves.I’ve read and loved Kleypas’ work in the past but this book fell flat for me.
The risks are unthinkable… the reward, a lifetime of incomparable bliss. As Rhys’s enemies conspire against them, Helen must trust him with her darkest secret. Helen’s gentle upbringing belies a stubborn conviction that only she can tame her unruly husband. Yet Rhys’s determined seduction awakens an intense mutual passion. Helen has had little contact with the glittering, cynical world of London society. If he must take her virtue to ensure she marries him, so much the better… And from the moment he meets the shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, he is determined to possess her. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success.
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