Review: Her Husband's Harlot
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
Lady Helena Harteford was what her husband, Nicholas Morgan, Marquess of Harteford, perceived to be a prim, genteel lady. Married two months and after a disastrous wedding night, Helena follows her husband to a bawdy house and there dressed as a doxy and in a darkened room, unrecognized by her husband, she and her husband have a raging sexual interlude. Helena  quickly goes from prim and proper to a woman who desires her husband and goes about binding him to her. Spurred on by a widow friend, she sheds her voluminous gowns, petticoats and demure personality. Her husband had an unhappy and devastating childhood; he is rich now after his father finally recognized him but Nicholas makes his money in trade. Even with his money, he is looked down on by the aristocrats; coupled with society's rejections and his feelings of inferiority, he feels that he is beneath his wife and believes that he shouldn't have married her. Helena doesn't plan to let him get rid of her; her transformation from a weak woman to one with backbone makes for interesting reading. The book has erotic sex scenes; the language is very explicit, the f--- word is used frequently as well as other coarse euphemisms. I liked Nicholas' character, he was so downtrodden and not of his making; but Helena was his staunch supporter and never gave up on him.