Review: You are all grown up now!  Or are you?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
Harriet Stanley Mercer has a problem and she believes that becoming a ruined woman will solve it.  While endeavoring to be ruined, she gets cold feet, and starts to fight off the man she has picked to ruin her.  Roger Templeton was just taking a walk in the garden of his host and hostess when he hears this scuffle.  He reluctantly decides to see what the problem is, when he discovers the victim is none other than a childhood friend from home.  Roger has not seen this gorgeous siren since he was fifteen. and she nine.  During their childhood association, he was always having  to rescue her.  Will he be able to now that they are grown?The plot of this story is very light on the mystery introduced and heavy on the "Should I have sex with that woman?" on his part, and "I can't wait to see him nude." on her part.  For this reader, it just seemed very juvenile.  Both the H and the h had much sexual experience before this, so it did not ring true that these parties would be so inept at seduction and dalliance.  It brought frustration and boredom.The hero seems to have no self-esteem.  Who wants a hero like that?  Boring!  For a majority of the book, the Hero even runs from an affair with the heroine.  The heroine did not play well in the time period of the book.  Her aggressive and reckless manner would have not been tolerated in that time period.  Once again, an author that tries to write contemporary characters in an historical setting.  The entire mystery revolves around the heroine's child, but the author does not ever develop this child as a character.  Most of the characters are little more than cardboard figures for the back drop of the great sex debate.I have read two novels by Ms. Kane.  This author has a talent for good dialogue, and she has great plot ideas, but she spends little time developing the plot she introduces.  I understand that Samantha Kane is a writer of erotica. as well as historical romance.  Therein lies the problem for this reader.  It is this reader's preference to read love-fueled, steamy sex, not the sex mechanics for lust sake of immature and insecure adults. Boring.Samantha Kane is definitely a talented writer, but her light on the plot writing is just not for me.