So Wild A Heart
Wealthy & blunt American heiress changes her mind about refusing rake Hero's half-hearted marriage proposal. She views it as a challenge to make hero, who's been devoted to his married mistress for 14 yrs, fall in love with her. Hero agrees to wed her b/c of his dire financial straits but later finds himself wanting more from their marriage of convenience than he originally intended. My 1st Camp book & I liked it. It was absorbing & fast paced. Good sensuality. The heroine was plucky but not in an emotionally distant or somewhat uncaring way that other plucky heroines are often portrayed in romance novels. I especially liked how Hero's struggles between degradation & goodness were detailed & realistically portrayed.
One thing that niggled me was the possibility Hero's new obssession/"love" for heroine is just a replacement of his long-time obssession/"love" for his mistress. I guess I wasn't totally convinced that his love for heroine was all that different than his mistress, except for the fact that heroine was more morally upstanding than evil mistress.
Recommended.
