Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔 
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑  
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥 (Some may count this a touch hotter than me – the scenes were on the short side and not super descriptive) 
Humor: Just a bit
Perspective: Third person perspective from both the hero and heroine 

Basic plot:
Louisa is tired of being poor and knows no man is society is going to swoop up and save her with marriage. She applies to be a chaperone for a family of 2 American heiresses looking for husbands. Her brother and his two friends want introductions and her to put in a good word so their dowries can save their disastrous finances. But the more time Hawk spends with Louisa and the heiresses, the more time he can’t get just Louisa out of his head.

Give this a try if you want:
- Victorian time period – this one takes place in 1888
- Low to mid steam – there are a number of scenes but the details are on the vague/flowery side
- Brother’s best friend – they knew each other as children, but he is 8 years older than her so they didn’t spend a lot of time together
- Hero needs an heiress
- Focus on the relationship (no villain/murder to solve)
- Ruined heroine
- Working heroine (she’s a chaperone) and a Duke hero

Ages:
- Heroine is 26, hero is 34

My thoughts:
Well, I was excited for this one but sadly the hero ruined it all for me. 

I enjoyed Heath’s writing – it’s been quite awhile since I’ve read her and I’m eager to read more. In this one, I did really love Louisa. She’s fed up with her useless, head in the sand brother, and decides to work for her own money since their estate is under major financial stress.

Hawk has known Louisa for years and never paid much attention. But now the attraction he feels felt pretty instant. And while I don’t love that, I was okay with that. But then we spent half the book with him chasing someone else. Yes, he was attracted to Louisa but it didn’t seem to make him question or stop pursuing one of her charges. 

I adore ruined heroine and I got that here. But I was really disappointed in this scene. And after she was ruined I was hoping the book would turn around for me because the things that had kind of been irritating me would be out of the way. But afterwards I just got frustrated by different things. 

I just never really connected with the hero. I never really felt their tension together, their longing, their love. And the ending was such a disappointment to me. I just wanted way more from this book. I wasn’t happy with the hero or the heroine by the end of this book.  

Though I loved that the hero has never taken a mistress! Though he ruins it by talking about brothels so I guess that kind of negates it.


One line I loved!

“I’m sorry, Alex,” she said quietly, “but it is not my place to convince you that the ladies are worthy of you, rather you must convince me that you are worthy of an introduction.


Content Warnings:

Brief mention of death of parents – father died of a heart attack 3 years ago in the story, mother soon after)
Brief mentions of smoking

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

Pg 180 – kiss
Pg 202 🔥 – first sex scene, missionary – a few pages but the wording is extremely vague.
Pg 257 🔥 = her on top
Pg 286 – sex scene
Pg 350 – sex? I don’t even know for sure what happened here it’s so vague