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This book is not good as the second book in the Federation series. The heroine is reunited with the much higher ranking aristocrat who devastated her years earlier by leaving her to marry a more politically connected woman. Of course now that he's divorced, he wants the heroine back. It reminded me of the old adage "Never make someone a priority who treats you as an option." Too bad the heroine didn't know that saying. I thought he need to squirm some more and beg her forgiveness for a lot longer. He put her through so much, but I didn't feel he had suffered enough. Call me a sadist. The plot could have been better. The plot disappears after several chapters. The heroine's close relationship with a strong secondary character just happens. That relationship needed to be developed a lot more. I didn't find the strength of their connection so believable because it happened far too quickly. The heroine starts off strong, but ends up not as strong by the end of the story. I was disappointed by that. This book has a lot of explicit sex and not just the vanilla variety either. If that kind of thing bothers you, don't read it. While the hero and his best friend do indulge in some m/m action, it's really nothing much. I felt the author wanted to add m/m to spice up the romance, but she didn't want to commit to writing an entire scene or two about it. Either she should have left out the type of thing or she should have committed fully to having m/m love scenes.
