Things proceed as well they should.Ĭold-Hearted Rake lays a lot of the groundwork for the rest of the series, so much so that it was a challenge balancing that against the love story itself. As the oldest member of the household, though not by much, she is acting as head of the family and arbiter of good conduct. They had been married for only three days when he died. The last earl died in a horseback riding accident and now Devon and his brother, West, have come to look over the moldering pile of the family estate, the plentiful farmland hanging on despite the ongoing decline in the agrarian economy, and the women of the family, including the erstwhile earl’s beautiful widow, Kathleen. (Answers: some, insufficiently, yes, yes, no)Īs is the way of historical romance plots, Devon Ravenel has accidentally inherited an earldom. Will it have the trademark smolder? How hot will the be? Will the hero be sardonic, self-made, and wry? Will he call the heroine “sweetheart” in that way of Kleypas men? Will we get to see any of our favourite characters? Probably. How excited? I’m writing this review and the book hasn’t even come out yet.
She is the author whose work I have read the most of and I was SO EXCITED to learn she was returning to historicals. I discovered Lisa Kleypas when I dove into the romance genre in 2012 and read everything of hers I could get my hands on – The Wallflowers, The Hathaways, The Travises, Derek, Gideon, and Zachary.
I will try to calm my excitement induced vibrating to write this review.
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