When Leela meets a charming man at an inn she's staying with on the way to her stepdaughter's betrothal, she takes a chance on a night of passion. However, she's horrified the next day to realise the man she just slept with is her stepdaughter and best friend's potential new husband.

This was a fun read, and I really enjoyed Leela and Hunt's predicament as well as all the delicious chemistry between them. I don't think this was the best regency romance I had read as there were definitely some parts in the middle that dragged a bit, and felt a little bit boring but I still very much enjoyed the world and figuring out how Leela and Hunt would sort everything out.

Leela was an interesting character to follow as unlike other characters I've read in similar books, she is a young widow and therefore has a bit more freedom than other women her age. She also didn't care much about society and was finally free to travel as much as she wanted, and learn more about her mother's side of the family. Her mother was Arabic and so Leela does tend to get looked down to sometimes in this book because of her heritage and suffers some racism because of it. I loved the chapters where Leela got to know her family more.

I also really liked that Leela was an author in this book too, and the story highlighted how hard it was for female writers to be taken seriously and be given a fair wage for their work. It was so frustrating to see how Leela had to struggle to get her book published when she had already been so successful when people thought she was a male writer.

Weirdly, one of the things I liked the most in this book was seeing all the obvious signs that the next book would be about Hunt's friend Griff. I really can't wait for that one but it was probably a bad sign that sometimes I was more excited to read Griff's story than continue to read Leela and Hunt's.

I did think this book was going to go down the slightly unconventional route in this genre where the couple didn't necessarily have to have a new arrival by the epilogue and given everything that had previously been discussed, I was hoping to see something more of their travels together (perhaps an adoption instead?) but nope. Which was a disappointment!