Oooh the plot thickens! I'm always kinda afraid to read the second book from a series, when the first one was so good. I hate it when it all goes to sh*t. I'm happy to report that this book was almost just as good. As with the first one the sexual tension was on point! My only complaint is that the sex scenes were pretty much identical to the sex scenes from the first book. I wish there was a little more creativity in the writing there, and I'm hoping Mrs. McMaster changes it up because the next book is about "take no prisoners"Rosalind, and she's not little miss virtuous like Honor or Lena, so she deserves some nonvirtuous sex!HaHa! I'm interested to see where the story will go between the Echalon and the humanist's, France and thier illuminati and the Scandavian Viking clans(I really want me some Vikings)! There is definitely a war brewing......