Mark, being the author of A Gentleman’s Practical Guide to Chastity has a reputation that precedes him, where people put him on a pedestal and likens him to a saint who is exempt from desire and sins altogether. While Jessica is a courtesan who wants out of the business, having grown wary of the life of servitude that she had been forced into, seducing Mark is her way out. Jessica Farleigh, who presents herself as a widower. So of course, I had to see what the fuss was about.Ģ8 year old Sir Mark Turner finds himself in the intriguing company of Mrs. But seeing a glowing review of Unclaimed on Instagram made me want to see what the fuss was about after all, who doesn’t love a hero who is a stickler for principles and presents a cold-hearted front to the rest of the world, while inside he is teeming and burning with fire and desire to be unleashed on the right woman? I have read a couple of books of the type, the last one I read being Laura Lee Gurhke’s Secret Desires of a Gentleman which I absolutely adored. Though her books receive rave reviews from readers now and again, I have found her books a bit bland for my tastes at times, steeped in too much bantering back and forth between the main protagonists, perhaps in a bid to show the intelligence behind her characters. It has been a while since I have read a Courtney Milan. Unclaimed can definitely be read as a standalone, as I could follow the unravelling story just fine. Unclaimed by Courtney Milan is book 2 in the Turner series, the debut book of which I skipped and jumped straight to this one.

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