I really wanted to love this book! Chase has always been this mysterious being coming and going, never able to be pinned down. Now we know why. Chase is miraculously a woman! Not any woman either, the sister of the duke that infamously messed up Lady Penelope's life from the first book in the series. Talk about small world.

I really enjoyed seeing how a woman, outcast from society, felt about having to reenter and the mental gymnastics Georgiana went through to be accepted by this community that was never going to love her fully. She was spoiled goods!!! How could any respectable woman have sex before marriage and have a child! The audacity!! (note: hard sarcasm here) I loved seeing how fiercely she loved her daughter. So much that she would give up her freedom, life, and happiness in order to obtain a title for her daughter so that she would be accepted in society someday. That's a badass mom for ya. I loved her costumes and how when she was Anna, notorious whore, she got no respect or acknowledgement, but as Lady G she was this goddess. Fun how status makes women more or less desirable.

I thought West was a good hero for her, as they were already business partners and that they dealt in secrets. However, he was way too much at times. It's not sexy how jealous he was of Chase. He would do something intimate with G, then leave her in an angry huff because "Chase had already been with her." I get jealousy, but treating the person you are lusting/loving after like that isn't healthy or sexy. Lady G was putting up with some bullshit there, even though she knew the reality. She was Chase, she wasn't fucking him! I thought the drama with revealing secrets at the end is what mainly kept me finishing this book. How was Chase going to get himself out of that pickle?? Hmmm?

This was not my favorite book of the series, but I did like the ending where all the business partners sat around the table and did their weekly game, BUT now with their partners in tow. That was a cute happily ever after for all of them, and I loved that West was one of the wives. Love some feminist propaganda thrown in there.