The infamous rake, Lord Richard Hamilton, has finally chosen his bride—the very appropriate Miss Emma Grey.
The ton approves, Lord Grey is pleased, Lady Grey delighted, and Emma is over the moon, but her uncle, (the blasted) Duke of Arden opposes the match, and Emma is ordered to move to the duke’s estate to think things over.
Richard Hamilton refuses to take things lying down and concocts a plan. A plan that should have brought the lovers together and had them married within a month. It was a simple matter of masquerading as the duke’s gardener, compromising the lady, and then having the duke rush them off to Gretna Green.
Alas, he underestimates the duke’s intelligence and the tangled situation on the estate—never had he imagined that compromising a lady could be so difficult.
His endeavours lead to a comedy of errors, charades, and knotty love affairs. Yet he forges ahead in spite of pesky house guests, a flea bitten mattress, his lovesick best friend, and a blackmailer.
Just when things seem to be going well, someone is murdered (very inconvenient), and he happens to be one of the suspects (extremely inconvenient).
His simple plan for winning the wager suddenly becomes … a tad complicated. AMAZON 3 STARS
The beginning was really slow. Although the Prologue did show some promise and made me smile.
Some of the rest of the shenanigans just made me roll my eyes a lot. I guess it really just wasn't my cup of tea. Some of it just felt so silly.
It finally did interesting to me when all the secrets behind the blackmailer starts to be revealed but that's not all of the secrets. Those come out after the murder of that blackmailer is revealed. The blackmailer and the murderer both turn out to be someone you most likely wouldn't think of. That part of the story, the mysteries was pretty good.
There is a H.E.A. for out main characters. And also another romantic H.E.A. for Richard's best friend who gets pulled into the drama.
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