This book is HOT! Filthy, spicy, kinky hot. 

It opens with a CNC scene and then it's off to the races! 

It's early 1820s England. The gentry is doing well while the people are starving, and inequality and discontent has led to harsher laws and an upset public. Homosexuality is illegal but Lord Richard Vane and his Riccardians have managed to find places in the city and countryside where they can be themselves amongst friends. 

Gentleman, employee at the home office, best friend of Lord Richard, Dominic Frey is as respectable as they come. He believes in the law, honour, and has strict morals. And he likes to be made to take it in bed, to be manhandled and "forced" by brutish men who get rough with him as he tells them no but secretly means yes. 

Dom has a regular Wednesday night appointment with Silas Mason, bookstore owner, brute, and seditionist. Though Dom doesn't realize the latter until they're nearly caught in flagrante. Neither does Silas know he's fucking someone adjacent to the government he so despises. 

By then it's too late though. The sex is too good, the feelings too strong, and they have to figure out how to keep what they have, when seemingly everything is set against them. 

This book was so good!! Silas and Dom were great together, the spice was spicing, and I'm really loving the found family and the Riccardians. 

The reason this doesn't get a 5 is because the narrator managed to make the sex not hot and almost boring. He's great for the action and plot stuff but I realized I was getting bored during what was objectively hot AF scenes which is insane?? I switched to the ebook and was immediately squirming, so I read the latter half in that format. 

When (not if) I reread this, it'll be the ebook and there's a good chance this will then be bumped to 5 stars.