I can only hope Ms Ashe improves greatly with her next effort. I gave this a 3* rating because I was too embarrassed to rate it as low as I felt it deserved. His ONLY thoughts were of bedding her, she could only think of what it would be like bedding him and HATING him at the same time. Even the horse "raped" her mare or one can assume he was DUMB enough to let her ride a mare in heat next to his monster destrier. Where was the story??all I read was the need for sex. I gave up fighting my way to page 150 and started another, much better book. "Mayhap" there was a story somewhere before the last page??? Oh well, at least I can use it for an exchange at my local used book store. Save your money, if you are curious, try to borrow it.