If you like Regency-set prostitute love stories, or stories about male prostitutes, this may be the book for you. The heroine is married to an impotent abuser who has exiled her to the country; her cousin thinks she needs a man in her life and orders her a manwhore. The hero is a professional "companion" (gigolo) to bored society women, saving toward the day he can retire and live a normal life; in the heroine he finds someone different than he expected and this really gets his attention. Of course, once he meets his soulmate, he mostly manages to arrange not to sleep with anyone else after that, although the evil madam manages to degrade him just the same. This book made me think in a way of Susan Howatch's _The Heartbreaker_--even though the books are much different, and Howatch gets more dramatic with the occult pimps and the priest exorcists and the fact that her prostitute character is selling sex that is at odds with his sexual orientation--, I think Howatch book really examined the soul-draining aspect of prostitution much more thoughtfully; Collins skirts around it for the most part, although you see it in places here as well. For an erotic romance, this is extraordinarily well-written.