eak1013 's review for:

Vixen in Velvet by Loretta Chase
3.0

Didn't super love either protagonist, and I normally dislike conflicts that pit the heroine's capability against the hero's presumed knowledge of her capability, no matter how flirty. However, when the hero's actions directly lead to the harm of the heroine's business and reputation, he *gets* it and grovels appropriately. Part of the conflict has been that he doesn't understand what her business and reputation mean to her, and it would be easy to have him feel bad for upsetting her but still not get it, but he does. He might not atone/grovel as much as I would prefer, but his thunderclap realization of just how badly she has been hurt, how his actions led to that, and *why* she was hurt was rather satisfying.