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I had so many problems with this book. First I thought the heroine was an idiot. I know, I know, she was young and dominated by her mother. But that only works for me in the beginning. This was a woman who was married for four years to a man that adored her and tried to do everything in his power to please her sexually, only for her to rebuff him and show him nothing but distaste. Because she was an idiot. So she goes off to "find" herself, telling him that she really wasn't in love with him when they married and she only married him because her mother browbeat her into marrying a Duke.

I can't think of any book I have ever read where I wanted the hero to go find a mistress and cheat, repeatedly, on the heroine.

And then toward the end of the book we finally find out why the heroine couldn't really enjoy sex, I just....well, I just...I had no words. But remarkably she suddenly realizes (75% into the book) that she feels desire for her husband. I guess that makes everything ok then.

Ihe only reason this book gets 2 stars is because the A-plot with this idiot only takes up about half the book. The B & C plots are much more interesting with the intriguing yet dysfunctional marriage of The Duke and Duchess of Beaumont who were intensely more interesting than the main couple. And the Duke of Villiers. I had the fortune of reading his book A Duke of Her Own first so I was already pre-disposed to like him. I had heard he was a bit of a villain in the earlier books so I was glad to see him in his larger than life personality in this book. So his 'As I lay Dying' subplot was quite entertaining.