3.5 stars 
 Standard Elizabeth Hoyt formula. 
 I would argue purely putting the Duke of Montgomery in a romantic setting, does not make him a villain at all, but an anti-hero. As an anti-hero, he likes to shag anything that moves, makes jokes about having Mehmad as his catamite, and isn't averse to the odd threesome or orgy or anything really. His sexual appetite is tamed though by Bridget Crumb, his housekeeper, who is keen to get him to stop blackmailing her mother. He also tries to blackmail himself an aristocratic wife (Miss H.Royale) and locks her up in a dungeon before Bridget stages an intervention. In the end, the Choas gang kidnap Bridget to gang-rape her, and Val, a newly initiated member is given the honors. He predictability saves her. It really is typical Elizabeth Hoyt, well not the plot, but just the general set-up of when the sex happens, and maybe Val is a smidge darker than the rest of the heroes, but for my taste, he wasn't dark enough or rather the darkness I was expecting ;)