This is Balogh's first novel of the 3 I grabbed, and it shows. It's got the world's clunkiest plot--woman runs by a duel, yells "stop," is late for work and gets fired, tells the duelist whose duel she interrupted that he owes her a job, and it works?? Step one was problematic to begin with, I'm not sure how the rest of the chain of events is supposed to progress.

But there's some nice psychology and rapturous description of the arts, so that's nice. I like characters with talents and passions outside of the bedroom.