badgerbag

Am on the plane to Vienna reading the most ridiculous and awesome Regency romance in the universe, crying with laughter.

The heroine, Merlin, is an eccentric genius who has invented radio transmitters and is building an airplane. Falconer, the Duke of somethingorother, has come to demand her help in the war against the French but he accidentally ingests an aphrodesiac instead of salt on his mutton, and they have crazy weasel sex all over her dusty mansion, dubiously with regards to her consent since she doesn't know what's happening. She doesn't mind, anyway. I had to pause to laugh and write this down at a prolonged climactic moment but first I shall warn you there are SPOILERS.

Merlin has just woken up out of a coma (after her plane crashed). Falconer immediately tricks her into immediately marrying him (they were in love, but she refused to marry him because he wanted her to stop building airplanes because of his deep fear of heights). She snaps suddenly out of her amnesia, storms out in her wedding dress after screaming at him in front of all the guests and his family about her airplane and her engineering notes and equipment -- which he has burned.

As Merlin flounces off across the lawn, she becomes distracted by the complicated workings of a fountain, so of course wades in to get a closer look and slips into deep water. The Duke thinks she has thrown herself into the fountain to commit suicide. He rushes to save her.

Somehow then they end up with his white silk breeches straining with lust and her bodice slipping off. As they do. They have sex all over the fountain and its statues. He then tenderly towels her dry, carries her over the threshold and falls asleep. She dresses in his clothes, gets her beloved pet hedgehog, and slips away into the night…

I love this book!

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thistleingrey

Pet hedgehog! *tips over top and rolls down other side*

wired

That sounds like the most awesomely beautiful hatesex ever!

badgerbag

This is YOUR FAULT you realize. I am now on kinsale book #3.

hahaha! Oh, awesome.

So! You should read Long, Long, Sleep. It's all about parenting ethics and chosen family and princesses.

kate_nepveu

I haven't actually read this--it's _Midsummer Moon_ by Laura Kinsale, for those curious--but I've heard enough about it that the pet hedgehog was actually the thing that confirmed its identity for me.

The dubcon was not previously mentioned, however.

She seems kind of into the dubcon! The heroines spend a lot of time moaning "Oh, SIR! What IS this strange, exquisite sensation!" At some point, often AFTER they've actually had sex a few times, they figure it out.