Overall: ⭐️⭐⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥
Humor: Not much
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? plot
How did the speed of the story feel? medium to fast?
When mains are first on page together: Immediately (chapter 1, 1-2%)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Not really
Format: listened to audiobook from library (Hoopla)

Should I read in order?
This is the first book in LaCapra’s Furies series.

Basic plot:
After a very public separation from her husband, his death brings suspicion to Lavinia’s door. It also brings her former love to try to protect her.

Give this a try if you want:
- Georgian (1784)
- widow heroine
- murder mystery
- second chance
- hero pursues
- protective hero
- I don’t know if I would say enemies to lovers but there’s definitely some lingering misunderstandings/animosity between the mains
- lower steam – I could have missed something but I only noticed 1 full scene

Ages:
- Didn’t catch either! I would guess late 20s for heroine and same or possibly early 30s for hero?

First line:
Maxamillion Harrison’s heart beat for a single purpose.

My thoughts:
I really struggled with this one! I don’t love murder mysteries or second chance, so this book was just having bad luck with me before it started haha.

I read one by LaCapra years ago and just loved it so much. So I think my expectations were pretty high and I wasn’t expecting so much busy plot – I definitely wanted the mains together more than they were. And I felt like all of their relationship had already happened off page.

It’s a heavier book and I think I just wasn’t in the mood for it.

Those that love a faster paced, slightly dangerous second chance might love this one though.

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- scene of a mob with heroine is danger
- awful marriage remembered with forced exhibitionism
- heroine’s husband was murdered
- gun danger/gunshot wounds
- some mentions of British occupation of India (hero used to practice law there)

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

Safe sex: 

I don’t believe so? It’s not super detailed (just ‘he released’.) 

Hows the consent? 

It’s good/implied 

5% - kiss
31% - kiss
51% - kiss
67% - kisses, oral for her, missionary

“I have wanted you and only you for a long time.”
His breath whiffed on her skin.
“In my mind, I have made you mine a thousand times. I have undressed you and then kissed you here,” he circled his knuckle on her neck just below her ear, “mercilessly beguiling you until you writhed.”

100% there’s some minor implied scenes