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I hoard Sarah MacLean's romances until I need to read something uplifting for my feminist spirit. All her Heroines are fucking (pardon my lack of caring about swears) are so independent and fierce in their ways that it just makes me think, "maybe to tomorrow I will be that brazen and bold." One would think that a romance novel would not inspire that, but Sarah MacLean novels inspire.

Hattie, Lady Henrietta Sedley, doesn't fit the mold at all for a Regency romance novel, and that is what I loved about her character. She about to turn 29 and realizes that she needs to take hold of her life, has a list of five things that need to change. The eve of her birthday finds one of the BKB tied up in her carriage, no time to deal with that situation Hattie unties him and tosses him out - possibly the best meet-cute ever. However, she is going into his territory of Covent Gardens, and he knows where she is heading.

What could go, wrong? Right?

This romance is full of banter, smarts, fights, and a HEA. Oh yeah, Hattie knows how to tie a good sailors knot.