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I've never been a fan of McNaught's historicals. I read the first version of Whitney, My Love back in the day and disagree with her assessment that it was only the scene between the two men that portrayed the earlier scene as an actual rape.
I enjoyed some of her contemps when they were first released, but tried to reread one of them a few years back and DNF'd it. (It was either Paradise or Perfect, I don't remember which one now).
I feel bad for her fans that the often-delayed new book seems like it will never be released. It's had so many release dates come and go. I know she had some real life issues to deal with.
And as others have said, she isn't the only author who wrote forced seduction at the time. I'm glad the genre has moved past that for the most part.
I do miss the old historicals not for the "bodice ripper" trappings or lack of consent, but because historicals in the 80s and early 90s used to have a much wider variety of settings and time periods. Everything wasn't Regency England and France. Not that I don't enjoy many a book set in England, but there used to be numerous books set in other places, too. That is what I miss.
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