Cicely Ware only wants one thing before she acknowledges herself to spinsterhood; she wants to know what it’s like to be loved like a woman. Her father had a gambling problem, her mother tried to kill her cousin and she is rather plain in the looks department. She begins to search out a rake that will deflower her and love her as she needs to be. Cicely decides that Douglas, the Duke of Ethingham, will be the perfect man to handle the job for her. She knows that it will be a once in a lifetime thing and she is ready to handle the heartbreak if he will give in to her.

Douglas, the Duke of Ethingham, is so completely flabbergasted when Cicely asks him to help her learn how to seduce a man that he loses his footing on a dance floor which is something that a man such as himself never does. His first reaction is no; there is no way he could do something like that with a sweet and innocent virgin such as Cicely. However, the more that he thinks about it, the more he is afraid that she will proposition someone else and so he makes himself her protector. Eventually Douglas doesn’t want to protect her, he wants her for his wife. Cicely doesn’t believe that he wants her in that way and Douglas plans to prove to her that they are going to be together every day for the rest of their lives.

After reading and falling in love with The Accidental Countess, I could not wait for the next book in this series, Lessons in Seduction. I fell in love with Cicely in the first book and to see her with a book of her own was a great second edition to this series. Melissa Schroeder will have you totally engrossed with the couple by the second chapter of the book. The book draws together two people who feel that they are out of touch with reality and always observe the world. They each believe that they can only watch and not feel the love from other people; luckily they find each other and prove that is not the case. I was totally caught up in the emotion, the passion and the thrill that goes along with this book. From spies to love stories, this is one book that you do not want to miss. Ms. Schroeder has me hooked on regency books at this point and I’m counting the days until the final book of this series is released.

Reviewed by: Missy