Historical romance with a definite twist!
I love The Gentlemen's Club series by Tiffany Baton! Book five of the series, A Widow for the Earl, was definitely a twist from the rest of the series! All of the books involved love that occurred after a bit of a scandal. Each book focused on a different woman who was part of a group of best friends who were not society's darlings. However, Beatrice, the female protagonist of A Widow for the Earl, was one of the most outspoken, thoroughly outrageous, and the one of her friends most destined for spinsterhood. So it was surprising that the book started not only with her being forced into an arranged marriage, but that it happened three times! I would never have thought Beatrice would ever succumb to societal ideas about women and marriage. And widowhood? I would have expected her to more likely escape to somewhere she could live her spinster life in peace. Tiffany Baton totally surprised me with the original storyline. The three-dimensional character development of Beatrice that culminated in A Widow for the Earl was brilliant!
There was also a Gothic feel to this book that was not in the other books in the series. I could see that Beatrice's interest in ghosts and other paranormal phenomena was a offshoot of the strange deaths of her previous husbands.