Our heroine is Lady Georgiana and you get to meet her in Sarah Macleans first series, love by numbers. She is the hero’s sister from the third book - Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Dukes Heart. Our hero is Duncan West, self made newspaper man.

There’s a lot I liked about this book. I enjoyed Duncan and his protective personality. He is not nobility, he has pulled himself out of the gutters and made something of his life.

Georgiana is not the heroine I would usually go for. Ruined at 16, now with a 9 year old daughter, she was a wonderful female role. She has transformed her life and really is a perfect match for Duncan.

There were some things that annoyed me in this story. One of the main problems of the relationship is established fairly early on and just keeps going and going and going until almost the last page and you are screaming and shaking your book yelling, “Just *#*}*#*% tell him!!!”

Our heroine thinks a title will solve all of her problems and I found that annoying as well. Especially after reading the love by numbers series and all the drama and gossip and scandal despite the titles. A baby out of wedlock, a bastard, is not going to be saved in society’s eyes by becoming a viscountess.

Lastly I found the crime Duncan had committed a little anticlimactic. Yes I’m just being my usual extremely picky self.

I am so glad I have read both these series, even though only 1 was a 5 star read for me. (Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake) Sarah has woven a lovely world to get lost in and I enjoyed how everything connected together at the end.