Elizabeth Holt is a fabulous story teller, but I'm not a fan of explicit sexual details.... especially told repeatedly. It's so tiresome after the first encounter. While readers may find it instructional, it's far more scintillating to discover intimate delights on one's own. This novel's story line continues the intriguing tale of London's wily social set in the mid-18th century. And intrigue it is, the sole reason I've now read everyone one of this series, though I skip past paragraphs that deliver laborious fine print about sexual encounters. Like the Viagara ads, however, it may draw lots of readers.

Elizabeth Hoyt had done it again with this fairy taleish book. Start out with a hero who can’t speak due to an injury to his neck, add in the fact that he’s on the run as an escapee from Bedlam, then mix in a beautiful and blacklisted actress hiding away on an island in the middle of London and you wind up with an amazing and creative story.

Good book.