Expected publication: March 6th 2018 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
384 pages | Goodreads Description: ❝It is a truth universally acknowledged that a lady can do anything a man can do: backwards and in high-heeled dancing slippers. Lady Juliana, daughter of the Earl of St. Maur, needs all the help she can get. She’s running a ramshackle orphanage,
London’s worst slumlord has illicit designs on her, and her father has suddenly become determined to marry her off. Enter Major Neil Wraxall, bastard son of the Marquess of Kensington, sent to assist Lady Juliana in any way he can. Lucky for her, he’s handy with repairs, knows how to keep her and the orphans safe, and is a natural leader of men.
Unfortunately for both of them, the scandal that ensues from their mutual attraction is going to lead them a merry dance…❞ (end of description)
MY RATING: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)
REVIEW
She is the daughter of an Earl. He is the bastard son of a Marquess.
She is trying and failing to run an orphanage. He has been recruited to help her. Personalities clash but chemistry keeps bringing them together.
The story is told from the alternating points of view of the main characters. The novel is funny but moved a bit fast for my taste and the plot oscillated too often around the orphanage’s children and their mischiefs.
All in all, this is a light-hearted story, I recommend it to readers of period romances.
Received an advance copy from the publisher via Netgalley
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