If you like your romance bland, your hero and heroine dull and the sex platonic, this is the book for you. Not a great story, though the big picture premiss was good. (Widow accused of murder in a time where women had little power of self defense) Only the author gave her heroine the easy way out starting at the reading of the will, the husband's loyal servants suddenly not so loyal and a Comte with a convenient curiosity.The murder motive was far fetched and overly contrived. The only scandalous part is in the title.