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I read a book about a month ago I want to recommend to you all but have forgotten the titltle. Its historical romance, about a women who has married an older lord who has not slept with her because he can't stand human contact. Despert for an heir he invites men to his country home under the pretext of buying horses. Putting his wife on display in the hope she begins an affair and wind up pregent. After a couple of years she is still a virgin until our hero arrives. They begin to fall in love, do the deed and then he leaves. our heroine not preggers and her husband go to london where he hopes his wife and lover continue the affair. She becomes his mistress and ends up pregent. The husband on learning his wife condition arranges the lovers to fall out and believe she only wanted a child from him and she leaves back to the country. Forward 9 months and a baby is born but she has a daughter not a son much to his distaine. Drinking and unable to touch his wife drives the husband to near violance at his wife and her child. He tells her they must begin again so he can get a male heir to which she refuses at which point the hero return to save the day