Lessons and Lovers
Portia DaCostaContemporary erotic romance
Available from Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 1-4199-0421-3
November 2005
| Due to the illness of Lady Henrietta's husband in the last months of his life, he was unable to hold a physical relationship with his beloved younger wife. Taking care of her physical needs became an important matter for Sir Piers and he settled this by handing her sexual needs and desires over to his man of all jobs, Starr. Starr, so cool, collected at all times, so gloriously male. He was capable of taking care of any and all jobs of any sort in the Miller household. The relationship that hovers behind their physical bonding, unspoken, but very dear to Hettie, leaves her facing a confusing future. She's in love with a man whose first name she doesn't even know, who services her every need in every way, whose body has cherished and adored hers, but whose mind she has never experienced. She literally knows nothing personal about him. On the morning following her vow to open the feelings she has for Starr, she helps a girlfriend by taking in that girl's younger cousin for awhile, who is suffering under amnesia after an awful accident. He turns out to be something totally unexpected; a gorgeous virile male just oozing sex. This brings a new level of awareness into the Miller home, and the relationship between Starr and Hettie.
This was an amazing read and I couldn't put it down. To feel with Hettie, drowning in the middle of her overt sexual feelings, her every focus set on Starr, even as she experiences lust for the beauty and sexual surge others might arouse. This was such a poignant novel; the control Starr forces on himself, though finding it harder to keep that control-his emotional walls finally breaking in his love for her. It was amazing and so sad to read-such a giving love. But it was worth the wait to enjoy the moment when he realizes that he doesn't need to hide his feelings; that he is free to declare himself. Loved this truly excellent story.
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Reviewer: Glenda K. Bauerle |
