Teach Me

Elizabeth, young widow and dowager Viscountess Rocksley has always suffered from an insatiable curiosity for, well, everything!

Her marriage was somewhat disappointing, with a husband interested in fulfilling his marital duties in the dark and clothed in nightwear. She decides that she wants an education in the erotic arts. Having applied to the Madam if a superior brothel for tuition, she is surprised to find her tutor is the notorious rake, James, the Earl of Malvern.
He is bored and expects the task of educating a mouse of a woman in carnal knowledge to be merely diverting.

Although he appears cold and aloof, even from the beginning there is heat between them.

As Elizabeth's education continues, she becomes more emotionally attached to Malvern, while he outwardly remains detached.
Hi inner thoughts show us what an abusive childhood he suffered. His father was a rake and debaucher, like all the Earl's of Malvern before him. With his mother living in a convent (likely as an antidote to being married to the Earl) James was exposed to his father's lifestyle.
The Earl takes him along to debauches, exposing him to far too much, far too soon. Culminating in purchasing his first prostitute when he was twelve!

James has no experience of normal family life or love. So when he and Elizabeth become close and he fears that he loves her, he panics and pushes her away, in a devastating fashion.

This is an interesting book. It is extremely erotic, but the emotional subtext gives it an enjoyable depth.

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