This was a book that just kept getting better each page. It had a slow start for me, but more than made up for it at the end. I really didn't like that Martin and Violet had this unacknowledged thing for each other. Even if it was never anything they would have acted on, I just wasn't keen on it. I thought Mayberry handled it really well, though, and each chapter was better than the last. 
 I read Hot Island Nights right before this one, thinking this one was a sequel to it. It's less a sequel than it is a story of what was happening in England while Hot Island Nights took place in Australia. It was really cleverly written. That especially worked well with reading them back to back. Sarah Mayberry really paid attention to detail, including several coversations from HIN in this book, but from the other POV. I really enjoyed that. 
 The sex scenes were also really well written. Hot AND realistic. (view spoiler)[ I think this is the FIRST time I ever read a scene where the man orgasmed first, and then helped the woman finish. It was still very hot and I very much appreciated that every single sex scene didn't include simultaneous orgasm. It was great! (hide spoiler)] 
 I thought the story was more about Violet's journey than it was about Martin's, but I was fine with that. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to more from Mayberry, either with Harlequin or self-pubbed.