Jeweled Men >> Golden Chronicles thanks to its even sillier overarching plot (secret cabal with ridiculous code names? Say more right now) but as usual, the first entry in the series is always the weakest. The plot of this one would have been over in 0.5 seconds if the leads had bothered to communicate, but there are promising side characters here at least (even if many of their names are wildly historically accurate. @Patricia don't be jumpscaring me with my own name in Georgian times; I know damn well the Victorians coined it.)

(And does "two characters are 1/8 Chinese" count as diversity? Perhaps diversity is a relative thing here, I don't know enough about 80s Georgian romance to weigh in.)