In the vein of Portia Da Costa and Charlotte Featherstone, Regency England gets just a bit raunchy in this novella about a gently - raised lady who wants to feel like a woman… ''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.