This is my last book of 2023 because I figured that it would be fun to read a romance by one of my favorite authors. But this ended up being more erotica than romance and it was not what I was expecting. Moreover, I had some issues with this novella. I didn't mind the age gap but I did mind that the hero knew the heroine since she was a young girl and that's always icky to me, also at the beginning she sounded so naive and young so that didn't help. Overall, the steamy scenes which are most of this book were well-written, but the amount of sexual displays in front of random people who weren't willing participants and that a lot of time were people that were there to serve them (waiters or sellers) and couldn't really say anything, didn't sit right with me.