She wants to have a child no matter the circumstance in which the child is conceived. So while with a friend out shopping one day, she decides that she needs a change. Helene eventually leaves, after a long discussion that proved hopeless. When Helene asks him for a divorce, he is blunt with his answers, having no compassion for his wife's desires or wants in having children. He is content with having a wife in name, and having passions in the flesh with other women with which he has no attachment to. He is a scoundrel and has had many illicit affairs outside of his marriage. Rees, The Earl of Godwin is a rake through and through.

However when she goes to ask her husband for a divorce he denies her.

Now ten years later, Helene wants something she yearns for, a child. Since she found no pleasure in sexual encounters with her husband at the beginning only found pain, they started to drift apart. It seemed to Helene that their marriage was doomed from the start. They eloped knowing it would be against her parents wishes. When she met him she was young and believed herself in love with him. (Mar.Helene, the Countess of Godwin, has been married to her husband for over ten years. In her chamber, but now she felt dismally overdressed, like a dog wearing a sweater,' James gives readers plenty of reasons to laugh. Punctuating her story with spot-on lines like 'She had felt very a la mode A faked affair, a trumped-up engagement and an unfortunate encounter with a stubborn goat snowball into a hilarious yet sharp war between love and respectability. In contrast, Esme's houseguest, Stephen Fairfax-Lacy, seeks a little scandal, but not so much that his Parliamentary career would be put in jeopardy-which rules out a tryst with the dramatically ruined minx Lady Bea, another of Esme's guests. Very pregnant Lady Rawlings, once known as Infamous Esme for her wild affairs, has decided to renounce scandal for the sake of her child-a goal too often thrown off track by her passion for the formerly upright Marquess Bonnington, who resides on her estate disguised as her gardener despite her attempts to fire him.

), some might be tempted to call her 'the historical Jennifer Crusie.' In this book, as in her previous ones, her flawed, outrageous and sometimes willfully blindered characters stumble through obstacle courses erected through their own misapplied judgments, making readers hoot with self-recognition every blundering step of the way. After reading James's newest offering (following Fool for Love

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