Perhaps the best description of the sort of discipline comes from what Spenser does to Helen as he’s trying to convince her to marry him after she’s turned him down. The sort of discipline involved in the plentiful love scenes here are not ones where either Spenser or Helen humiliates one another sexually. Now, before you think this is a book featuring S&M, relax. And when she quite literally jumps his bones in the park one day, things really heat up. When he meets the tall, blond, and curvy Helen, the double entendres that flow from her mouth, as well as her obvious delight in his personage, have him day-dreaming of her quite consistently. How, you say, could this be? When he overhears her speaking with Alexandra Sherbrooke (of The Sherbrooke Bride) about discipline, more than his intellectual curiosity is aroused. Lady Helen intrigues Spenser Heatherington, Lord Beecham, even before he’s gotten a glimpse of her. The Courtship is among the best I’ve read by her, featuring great wit, great sensuality, great lead characters, and great secondary ones as well.

Nearly all the books I most loved by Catherine Coulter were read in the early to mid 1990’s – it’s been quite some time since I unabashedly adored one of her books. Indeed, my batting average for her is this: 5 A’s, 6 B’s, 2 C’s, 6 D’s, and 4 F’s. For just about every book I’ve loved or liked by this author, there are an equal number of books I’ve disliked or abhorred. After having read 23 books by Catherine Coulter, I figure I’m something of an expert on her.

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