Review: Where does one begin....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 17, 2013
Patience Findley is having a rough go of it these last 6 months with her mother's sudden death in India and her father showing up with a new and very pregnant wife. Patience doesn't ask any major questions she just assumes the worst and carries those notions around like daddy cheated on mommy and my new step mother is a slut and now lets not forget new baby step brother has made his way into the world.  Let's just say that Patience isn't the nicest person right now and she thinks her fathers sudden marriage scandal is ruining her chances at marriage. From reading this book I would say it's not the scandal that's ruining her chances but the nasty vibe she is giving off is doing that on its own. Patience's cousin Rowan is back in town and they meet up at a ball after a little chit chat and a carriage ride home she scheme's of tricking a man any man into marriage. Two of her friends found themselves victims of a bet and have noticed a lot of male attention and a little embarrassment. So Patience has decided that she wants the same and scheme's to find a husband.  Well Rowan after a little hemming and hawing has decided to help her.Rowan meets up with his good friend Tristan (Lord Swaffham) whose money is really tight right now at the club one day where Patience just happens to be. I'm not exactly sure why Patience was at the club. I thought women didn't go to those types of clubs anyway Rowan starts up a conversation that leads to a large bet and a moron toward the alter. Tristan's money is tight and Rowan knows this so Tristan was an easy target. Rowan bet 200 that Tristan couldn't bed his cousin. Not sure why Tristan didn't see this scam coming a mile away. I was thinking to myself run... run... Tristan dead beat friend two meters away. With the scheme in place Patience and Rowan act nonchalant about everything in Tristan's present even Patience plays a little hard to get. I swear be careful what you wish for you just might get it.  Patience gets just that a trapped newly acquired fiancée. Tristan meets up with an old friend who happens to tell him a wild story about two friends of Patience that ended up in a betting book and Tristan put two and two together and now he's ready to take a pound of flesh.  Tristan is mad that he was tricked by his good friend and the woman he has come to care about. He wants to walk away and let her suffer the consequences but he can't he supposes himself in love with her.