Cirrus@Austlit

'“I have never seen fit in my life to divulge my secrets in a diary, yet now, after today’s proceedings, I do…”

'Lady Catherine Bexley is new to marriage and the marriage bed, but surely there must be more to it than this? Her husband is proper and perfunctory — treating her with careful respect but leaving her aching for more.

'When she witnesses a gentleman disciplining a maid at a house party, the ache explodes into ravenous desire. She finds herself no longer willing to wait for her husband’s stiff and passionless attentions — and soon develops a naughty plan to finally get what she wants.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.