IAN, oh sweet Ian. I just wanted to hug him and explain that there was nothing wrong with him. Reading about people whispering Ian was mad made me want to strangle them. He was a really good man, who'd had a really hard life, sadly most of it at the hands of his own father and because of what his father subjected him to. 
 Beth, she was nice, but really got on my nerves at times. I'm all for an independent woman, but she rushed into danger when it just wasn't necessary. And omg, if I heard about her dead ex-husband one more time. We get it, you loved him. Enough! But they still had a pretty good relationship. She helped Ian come out of his shell and Ian finally felt like someone accepted him and he belonged somewhere. Their sex scenes ranged from hot to ok. Their foreplay was really hot though. They had fun in some odd places. 
 The one star off is mainly because of the whole 'did Ian go mad and kill a courtesan' plot. Honestly I didn't care whether he'd killed someone or not. *shrugs*. Beth spent a lot of time trying to clear Ian's name and Ian and his brothers were getting bothered by the inspector often, but I just didn't care about it. 
 I liked Ian's brothers and nephew. They seem like they have interesting backstories. I liked the epilogue. It was really cute and I had been waiting for 'that' to happen for a while.