![]() Joan Bennet (heh) meets the disreputable Viscount Tristan Burke when she's sent by her mother to roust her brother's sorry drunk ass out of bed. As an added bonus, my least favorite trope is not there: no catty woman to serve as a foil to the overly sweet heroine. There's a balloon ride and a fair lady's heart won via modern plumbing. There's a “What Not to Wear” subplot and a “This Old House” subplot. ![]() There's verbal jousting and sarcasm and all the catnip that is a haters-to-lovers story. Picture Han Solo and Princess Leia in a Regency historical, with well-written dialogue and a deliciously meta subplot about an erotic serial pamphlet passed around at balls and hidden in prayer books. But either one of those could cost him his bachelor status, which would be dreadful-wouldn't it? He'd give anything to get her out of her unflattering gowns. ![]() The only way he can win an argument is by kissing her senseless. Not only is she his best friend's sister, she always seems to catch him at a disadvantage. Tristan, Lord Burke, recognizes Joan at once for what she is: trouble. Is even a short flirtation too much to ask for? Thanks to some deliciously scandalous-and infamous-stories, she has a pretty good idea of what she's missing as a spinster. Joan Bennet is tired of being a wallflower. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Historical Romance category. ![]() ![]() This RITA® Reader Challenge 2014 review was written by Mochabean. ![]()
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