Tamsin Archer has had a difficult year, her father’s dead, her mom lost her arm, and now her younger siblings have gone missing. Tamsin is doing everything she can to hold her family together. When she dresses as a liveryman at a ball and pockets a couple of items, she runs into Garret Kildare. A few years ago, he made an impression on her with his gentlemanly ways when he saved her from being trampled. She thinks that he has it made with his perfect family and his family manor. What she doesn’t know is that he has just been delivered devastating news as well. His family has run out of money and the only way they will be saved is if one of he and his four siblings marry well and support the family. When he meets Tamsin, a young woman lower in station than he, those plans de-rail.

I loved the premise of this book. A young man ignores society’s expectations and falls for a woman from another class. What I didn’t like as much as that the writing made the characters seem really juvenile, or at least Garret seemed juvenile. I think the challenge in writing a historical romance of this nature is portraying how the hero changes his expectations and goes against how he has been brought up. The author chose to portray Garret, a 32 year old male, as a much younger man and in that way she gave him an innocence that just wouldn’t be the norm in this historical time in London, or at least I don’t think it should be. Tamsin, on the other hand, was tough and written exactly as she should be. The contrast between her situation and his, and how he and his brothers would solve the problem was just too big for me to ignore. It was too juvenile.

I did finish the book, but I just didn’t enjoy it that much and skimmed it to finish. ❤️❤️❣️

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley for an honest review and it was honest.

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