I found this read highly enjoyable. The characters are interesting and engaging and it has everything a good romance novel needs to be good. Marcelline is fun, flirty, intelligent and deep. She comes from a family of rakes, scoundrels, cheats, swindlers and many other negative things, but she married for love, loves her child more than anything and is desperate to save her heart from the Duke of Clevedon. Gervase, our handsome duke, is a man who has been on the run for a VERY long time, spending his days in France drinking, gambling and sleeping with beautiful women. He is instantly attracted to our fair heroine and becomes obsessed when she presents a challenge for him by saying no. 
 All in all a great read and I would highly recommend any of my romance novel loving friends (and anyone else who reads romance novels) to pick it up and get lost in this story. I'm looking forward to reading the other books of this series.