Jen's Review: "Lady Be Bad" by Candice Hern

"Lady Be Bad" is the third book in Candice Hern's Merry Widows series. The Merry Widows are a group of five ladies who banded together after losing their husbands. While working on charitable causes, the ladies decide they need more fun in their lives and agree to all take lovers during the season.

Grace Marlowe is the widow of Bishop Marlowe and has trouble with the idea of taking a lover. But when the rake, Viscount Rochdale, begins to focus his attentions on her Grace has trouble reconciling the feelings Rochdale aroses in her with the teachings of her late husband.

This book has been my favorite Merry Widow story (Just One of Those Flings (Signet Eclipse) is pretty darn good with a older woman-younger man theme). The characters are engaging and their relationship, while rocky, is interesting to watch. I'd strongly suggest reading the books in order (In the Thrill of the Night (Merry Widows), Just One of Those Flings (Signet Eclipse)), but Lady Be Bad: The Merry Widows Series does stand quite well on it's own.