How to persuade the lady your interest is genuine? No easy task. Has the Viscount has met his match, or can he win and claim a wife?
What do you do when your father has no faith in you?
Ignore him.
David, Viscount Suddards’ father, assumes—wrongly—that David gambles deep and has had an affair with a married lady before she has given her husband an heir. Enraged, his father issues an ultimatum. Marry within three months or lose everything that is not entailed.
David refuses. If that’s what his father thinks of him, he can go to the devil. He will marry when he is ready and not before.
What a shock then, a year later, when the one woman he is interested shows no interest in him!
It’s up to him to persuade her he’s the right husband for her, and when he does…sparks fly. Can these two strong-willed people ever learn how to compromise and find that in fact they are the perfect match?
After 30 plus years in Scotland, Raven now lives in East Yorkshire, and has swapped forest walks for coastal ones and her Aga for a hob and oven. She still enjoys writing where she can see the birds in the garden and her lovely hubby still has to ignore the dust bunnies, rescue dinner and hand her a glass of wine while she finishes what she is writing.
In this story we are taken back to the times of the ton in England. When I first started reading romance, I read a LOT of historical and regency romance but after a couple of years, I left them behind for other genres. Raven McAllan got my back into reading historical and then regency and I thank her for that. It's fun reading about a different time. David is a rake and has been ordered by his father to find someone to marry, but he defies him and leaves. Josephine's parents want to marry her off but she won't have any of it. These two meet up at a party and he helps her get rid of someone who is bothering her. I loved the characters and how they very slowly came together. The whole story was so good and the descriptions made me feel like I was in England at that time. Do they end up together? And why was Josephine so against marriage? Well, you need to get the book to find out. If you like historical romance, I highly recommend this one.