A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant

Martha is newly widowed and will lose everything she has worked to change on her estate if she does not protect if from her brother in law, who is to inherit if she does not produce an heir. Desperate for the heir she doubts she is pregnant with already, Martha sets up a business proposal with her neighbor. Theo Mirkwood is a bit of a rake and has been exiled from London by his father. Martha will pay Theo for one month of intimate activities and give a bonus if she becomes pregnant during that time. If the child is a boy, the bonus will be even bigger. What Martha and Theo don’t plan for is actually enjoying each other’s company.

Upon finishing this book, my first thought was that I really didn’t know what I thought of this book. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t what I’ve come up expect from romance. Most romance takes a bit to build up to the sexual encounters as the characters fall in love. In A Lady Awakened, that doesn’t happen. The sexual interaction is right near the start and some of the conversations/Martha’s thoughts on the topic (or male body) had me laughing and wondering how the author, Cecilia Grant, was going to build the story into a romance.

Well, Ms. Grant did a fabulous job because I really enjoyed the romance and sparks between the characters grew the more time they spent together. I think that in some ways, Martha and Theo didn’t feel like they needed to be shy with one another or behave in a proper Victorian England manner, because they’d already gone past that by having meaningless sex with each other. There relationship was refreshing in a way because it went beyond Theo saving Martha and wasn’t just about how attracted they were to each other. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

A Lady Awakened was a refreshing and enjoying romance. 4 Stars!

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If you’d like to find out more about the author, Cecilia Grant, check out her website.

I received this book from the Amazon Vine program.