Read Our Lips! Book Review Blog: Review: How To Be A Scottish Mistress by Adrienne Basso

Monday, September 22, 2014

Review: How To Be A Scottish Mistress by Adrienne Basso

She's ready to show him what she's learned…
She’s his in every way…
When newly widowed Lady Fiona flees to Scotland in need of protection, Lord Gavin McLendon is powerless to refuse the British beauty. Especially when she offers herself in exchange. Now that the brooding Scottish warrior can think of nothing else but ravishing his delectable new mistress, even though he’s duty-bound to marry another…
But one…

Fiona is shocked when Gavin accepts her scandalous offer—and fretful at the thought that he will discover how little she knows of seduction. But when Gavin proves to be a skilled and achingly sensuous teacher, Fiona doesn’t want their passionate arrangement to end. Now she can’t help but wonder just what it would take to go from Scottish mistress…to Scottish wife.

My Review:

Fiona is an English widow in dire need of protection for her late husband’s crippled son and herself. The only one she can turn to is a friend of her late husband, Gavin, a Scottish lord.

She seeks his protection since no one, not even her brother or any good knight, refuses to take her stepson and train him how to fight. Thinking her stepson might fare better in another court, she makes the trip to Gavin’s lands.

Once there, Gavin refuses to help her, though he can’t fight the attraction he feels for her. Gavin’s got his own problems. His bastard half brother is running amok on his lands, pillaging everywhere he can.

But Fiona sees a momentary flash of desire when Gavin looks at her and she rolls the dice, saying she’ll trade herself in exchange for lessons for her stepson. Gavin tells her that he’s not looking for marriage and Fiona clarifies that neither is she.

Gavin quickly accepts, much to the shock of his people. Things definitely take a turn at this point and Gavin’s castle will never be the same again. If only his bastard brother would cease his raids so he could stop to enjoy things.

But what will Gavin do when his king demands he marry a Scottish wife? Will he forsake Fiona and her stepson? Or is Gavin so head over heels for Fiona that he’ll defy everyone to be happy?

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