I came here to read Tessa Dare’s short story. Ever since I started her Girl Meets Duke series I’ve made it my mission to read her entire back catalog as well as future titles. Her writing is so easy breeze and certainly beautiful.

Her short story was good. It wasn’t my favorite thing I’ve ever read. And maybe by the very nature of it being a short story I didn’t feel like I had enough time to really connect to the characters. And honestly it took me a while to truly decide if I actually cared about whether or not Louise and James ended up together in the end. While I certainly don’t regret reading this story. I definitely won’t read it again.

I also read Sarah MacLean’s story. I did really enjoy her story The Duke of Christmas Present. MacLean’s writing style is not as easy and funny to me as Dare’s, but I felt like her story and my desire to care about the characters was greater in this story.

After that I read about half of Sophie Jordan’s “Heiress Alone.” I love the movie Home Alone. I love a Scottish dudes. Put them together in a historical romance and that sounds like a good time, but meh. It was not enough to keep me interested.

It was at that point that I threw in the reading towel and decided I was okay with not finishing the anthology because honestly I came into it to read Tessa Dare. My goal was finished and thus I could rightfully move on to my next read.