Isabella Breckenridge is living with her Uncle Percy for the London Season to help him pass a bill through Parliament. He wants her to use her beauty to lure peers of the realm to consider courting her so he can talk to them about his Apothecary Act and convince them to vote for it. In exchange for her acting her part, Uncle Percy will pay off her father's debt and help him get back on his feet. What she doesn't know is that if she doesn't fulfill her part of the agreement, he will frame her father and have him transported.
Griffith, Duke of Riverton, has finally decided to settle down and look for a wife. He decides that Frederica St Claire will be his choice. She's not an incomparable--her nose is too large and offsets the rest of her features. But instead Griffith keeps running into Isabella, and then becomes fascinated by her beauty, her open personality, and her reluctance to fully engage in society's functions. She doesn't gossip, she doesn't play flirting games, she'd rather just blend in to the background and it attracted him like no other. What bothers him is that she doesn't want to engage in a relationship with him either. If only he could figure out her secrets.
I meant to read only a little bit of the book last night before I went to sleep, but I got caught up in the way the story was ending and read it to the end. I didn't have that much to read, close to two hours of reading, but I really didn't mean to read all that.
This is a Five Star Book, Two Thumbs Up, and a little bit of mystery to keep you interested.
My thanks to Bethany House for allowing me to read and review this book.
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