Okay, first of all... that cover! It cracks me up. It’s just so ROMANCE novel, isn’t it? But, seriously this was a fun book. Oliver Rivington has come back from war with a permanently injured leg. He craves stability and routine, but some shady business of his sister’s pulls him into the world of Jack Turner, a scoundrel with a healthy disdain for gentlemen like him.
Oliver insists on tagging along on a job that Jack takes on in order to protect the virtue of a lady. Jack takes every chance he gets to make Oliver uncomfortable with morally grey activities. Over the course of the story Oliver is forced to question whether doing things the ‘gentlemanly’ way is really all that better.
I loved seeing them both being forced to reevaluate things they’ve always believed as they fall in love with each other. There’s also a “Grand Gesture” moment at the end and I LOVE THOSE.