Review: Satisfaction Guaranteed
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2012
I am a hopeless romantic and a voyeur who has been searching for authors with the ability to titillate without being crudely subjugating of their women characters.It has been either the slow, ponderous romantic, historical fiction where when something finally happens with the characters...if you have managed to keep the book open that far, it is anti-climatic.  Or, it follows a tried and true story line, usually written by men (why all of them are British, I do not understand) that takes the poor female creature beyond her humanity into a role of sex slave, or worse, an animal.What a road I have travelled to finally find that there are such authors able to present erotic historical fiction with female characters with spirit and intelligence and male characters with rounded attributes beyond dominating with size, sex, and pain.  And to actually have a plot too, believe me that is the cherry on the sundae of erotic fiction!!!Georgia Fox has written a wonderful novel of an independent young woman, Elsinora, who is not willing to accept the social norms of her world (1082 AD) and believes that she has the intelligence and capacity to manage her family's property without a man, after her brother is killed in a bar fight.  Apparently, the members of this family have difficulty in maintaining peaceful relationships. Unfortunately, because of the drunken gambling of her elderly and ill father, she is rudely made aware that circumstances in the form of a large knight, Dominic, who has now become the property owner of all he surveys, including her.Fortunately, for Elsie, Dominic is unwilling to leave her or her people without his skills as a protector because he knows that the next man who might find her "off the beaten track" home, would not be so sincere.  And that is the beginning of a story that is wonderfully written with historical accuracy, character growth, humor, great sexual situations, and, of course, tied together for the romantic at heart.  (AVR)