Your Wicked Ways: Number 4 in series

A thoroughly uplifting experience from beginning to end. Helene, who you may remember from 'A Wild Pursuit', wants a child like her other friends. She has been living apart from her big, bad husband for many years and even though she ran away with Rees to Gretna, the experience of married life was not too pleasant for either of them.Rees has an Opera singer installed in his wife's bedroom and is thought of as a rakehell. Appearances are nearly always deceptive but the road to happiness for both Rees and Helene and also his brother Tom, who visits from 'up t'north' and Lina, the singer, is a joy to read and a laugh a minute. There is another little heartwarming diversion concerning five year old Meggin woven expertly into the tale. All in all a wonderful end book to the series, easy to read and very satisfying. Loved it!!

I love historical romance, but find perfect sex (or marital harmony) between relative strangers to be jarringly unrealistic. Helene and Rees are immature virgins when they elope. Although they are actually very well matched, they make a mess of things because they don't have the wisdom or experience a good marriage requires.Helene is hyper-critical, and blames Rees for all her negative feelings instead of trying to figure out what's really going on. It is so enjoyable watching her learn how to be a true friend from Esmee, devote herself to using her musical talent, and discover that she is uniquely beautiful. Once she knows herself better, and goes after her priorities, her confidence soars. Then, she's ready to discover the pleasures of her body, and finally, fall in love with her husband on a much deeper level.Rees has no relationship skills, has not become his own man due to baggage from his father, and is realistically clueless on how to please a woman in bed. Add to this, his low self-esteem and tendency to shut out everything except his work, and he has a long way to go. I especially liked the reconnection with his brother, which helped Rees see that he is at heart a loyal, good man.As they became truer to themselves, they are better able to understand each other. Finally, Rees can see Helene as his precious, sexy, musically gifted wife, and Helene can see Rees as her rugged, hot, musically inspired husband. And they see themselves through the other's eyes, and it is good.

Could not get this in library so treated myself as I like her light literature. It is a bit of a treat for me

I have yet to read one of Eloisa James's books that I haven't enjoyed. I like all her characters and she uses a style of writing that isn't too simplistic as to have been written by a ten year old but is not so overburdened with language that you need a dictionary for. The speech between the characters is witty and in all this book is great fun to lose yourself in while life goes on around you.

It was a book missing from a series. Delivery was on time.