The Viscount and the Vixen review

The Viscount and the Vixen by Lorraine Heath

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       This book literally kept me awake at night trying to finish it because it was so good!

        Viscount Locksley swore to never marry a woman he could grow to love after growing up with a father driven mad by his wife's death. When Locke first meets Portia Gadstone and assumes her to be a fortune and title hunter bent on taking advantage of his father, he decides he could never love her and marries her instead.

         Portia only agreed to marry Locke's father out of desperation thinking his title could offer her the protection she needed. She is horrified, however, to be marrying Locke instead. Until she realizes she could never grow to love a man like him.

         As they spend more and more time together, however, they realize that love is always worth taking a risk for.

         I will admit I was annoyed at first at what I thought was insta-lust for both Locke and Portia. And I was quite convinced that this book would be like the previous one with the hero and heroine doing little more than groping each other. I was wrong, however. While there WAS insta-lust, it is followed by a slow and moving love story. Locke and Portia get to truly know each other and grow as a couple.

         I loved Portia with her optimism despite the hand life had dealt her. And she felt just enough guilt for what she was doing to make me sympathetic towards her. And I thought Locke was a great guy. He was arrogant in many things but was always so gentle with his father and took excellent care of those around him even while grumbling about it.

         This was a great almost end to a overall great series. I can't wait to read Locke's parents' story and Ms. Heath's next title, An Affair with a Notorious Heiress!

          -Reader