Why have I been edging Kathleen Ayers books?? I read a bunch of her books last year, gave them all five stars, thought ‘this has been too good to be true’, and chickened out about reading more of them (why am I like this??).

Until this delicious novella.

We had:
✨ an impoverished rakish duke
✨ an experienced spinster heiress
✨ childhood enemies to lovers
✨ house party drama-lama

But the best part: the way secrets were plotted out in this story. I NEEDED TO KNOW how the reveals were going to go down. And it made this book unputdownable.