Review: Another wonderful story from one of my all-time favorite authors, Eloisa James
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2011
Lucy is a wallflower...and not your average wallflower...she's a tall wallflower!  Poor Lucy, always the source of despair for her title hungry mother.  Lucy is engaged to marry a non-titled man, one Cyrus Ravensthorpe, whom her mother hates!  Never mind he's the handsomest man in the Ton!  But Lucy is unhappy in her engagement to Cyrus because he doesn't talk to her, doesn't take her riding, doesn't attend social functions with her, and didn't even ask her to marry him after he spoke to her father!  (So rude!)  Suddenly, Lucy is an heiress and now she's become the focus of every fortune-hunter in polite society and Lucy's mother insists that she break her engagement to Cyrus.  But Lucy doesn't really want to and yet...because of the aforementioned reasons, Lucy does break the engagement!  Cyrus is a man with a plan and Lucy is #6 on his plan list!  He doesn't want to loose her, but he must now change his plans...Cyrus doesn't like to change his plans.I like how, after she becomes an heiress, Lucy finds her spine.  She really puts Cyrus through his paces to court her and compete with everyone else suddenly in the picture.  (I especially like Rathbone).  She makes him realize she's a person too and to not just assume she would marry him.  She teaches him to ask for what he wants instead of commanding or demanding.  Fortunately, he's a quick study.  I loved the part when he fell to his knees in the garden to declare his love for her and said "I love you (insert very long name here)."  "You are a passionate, daydreaming mathematician, (how romantic is that?), and the only woman I shall ever love." And then,,,,,and then,,,well, you'll just have to read the book to find out what happens next!  But I will tell you that it involves a naughty little risqué romp and a special license.I highly recommend this story.  It's a sexy and funny fast read with ties to Eloisa's Fairy Tale series.  My grade: 4.5 stars!