Enjoyable story! I didn’t like this one as much as The Truth About Lord Stoneville but it has a lot of good parts to it.

I liked the characters. Can I just say cousin Freddie might be my favorite 😂 The heroine is Minerva, an author who has skewered our hero Giles in a fictional world. Almost an enemies to lovers trope, I guess it would fit that, although they do not stay enemies for very long.

It’s fairly steamy with quite a few scenes, including three kisses by page 100, which I don’t usually find. Love the scene in the study. So dang hot. Yet it flows well enough in the story and is spaced out where I didn’t feel the main focus is sex.

They characters have a history together, and I like that there are two beginning scenes that establish that relationship before beginning in their present time.

It wasn’t 5 stars for me because, well I’m coming off reading a highland guard novel by Monica mccarty and she’s like my favorite 😂 but that’s not truly fair so I’ll also say I tend to dislike books where a large problem is a lack of trust in the relationship and that does happen here. There is a bit of “spy” activity and that is just not really my thing either. But those are personal preferences and definitely think this book is worth a try!