I picked up this book at the Bobby's Foodstore.
After the first sentence I doubted that this book would be on my favourite list of books ever read...
I stopped reading it after the second page.

Here is more information on it (found on amazon.com):
From Booklist
Raised in privilege, Viola is disinherited and ostracized when she is forced to marry a man far beneath her. Now a widow, Viola ekes out a living by taking in washing in a western mining town. On one of her rounds returning clean clothes to the local house of ill repute, she overhears the girls talking about the skills of William Donovan, a handsome Irishman well on his way to making a fortune. Stalked by a crazy suitor, and bereft after her small stash of money is stolen, Viola feels she has no choice but to sell her body. Instead of joining the local working girls, however, she approaches Donovan and asks to be his mistress. He is surprised but quickly takes her up on her offer, and what follows is a very interesting story related in prose so steamy that it fogs one's reading glasses as Donovan, a student of the sensual arts, teaches Viola everything he knows, and then some. Maria Hatton
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