Impatient with the strictures of polite British society, Miss Abigail Harewood has decided to live life on her own terms—and the first thing she requires is a lover. When the commanding Duke of Wallingford arrives on the doorstep of her leased holiday castle, she thinks she’s found the perfect candidate: handsome, dashing, and experienced in the art of love.
But tempting Wallingford into her bed proves more difficult than she imagined. Restless and dissatisfied with his debauched life in London, the formerly rakish duke is determined to spend a year chaste. But as Abigail tries her best to seduce him, Wallingford finds his resolve crumbling in the face of her irresistible charm…and her alluring secrets.
I have to say I just didn't like this book at all. The heroine was lively and quirky, but a little childlike. I thought the hero was going to be a man who was tired of this loveless life as a man-whore, but it turns out he was just a selfish man-boy who had no emotional maturity. When he starts falling for the heroine, he feels she is the only one with the strenth and desire to fix him. He knew he needed to change, but he couldn't even own up to the fact that he would need to change himself until the very, very end and we don't spend enough time with him to see how much he might have grown up.
The storyline involving haunted castles and breaking curses didn't even drawn me in past the unappealing characters.
I haven't read any other Juliana Gray so I don't know if this is her typical storyline or not.
I was so looking forward to this story, but I was disappointed in the characters. This book took me too long to read becuase I had to keep forcing myself back to it. It was just not for me.
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