a character would be like as the young heroine in a historical romance, then this is the book for you. The heroine, Marissa, is indeed lusty, make that LUSTY, silly, ...more Series: #1 in the York series Setting: England, 1847, but it really doesn't matter since it's a wallpaper historical Sensuality: PG-13 If you ever read the novels of Marion Chesney, Loretta Chase, or the like, there is a certain stock character: the ribald dowager who ogle and drool over men's legs. Well, if you ever wondered what such a character would be like as the young heroine in a historical romance, then this is the book for you. The heroine, Marissa, is indeed lusty, make that LUSTY, silly, and indulged all her life. As book begins, she is caught in flagrante delicto by her brother doing a gentleman she has no intentions of marrying (but he did have nice legs and it's so HARD not to TOUCH). To diffuse the possible scandal, Marissa becomes quickly engaged to Jude, a friend of her brother and the bastard son of a duke. The problem as it looks to the dim Marissa isn't that she is ruined and might possibly be pregnant but rather that Jude is a big, ugly, hulking, "blacksmith" of a fellow and she only like the pretty boys with the elegant legs. Marissa obviously has a lot of maturing to do, and does so over the course of the story. There may be some interesting underlining thread about