Review: The Maiden At Midnight
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2013
Jocelyn, sixth earl of Stornley is in love with Alora Piedmont and he had a simple plan; kidnap Alora and take her to Gretna Green and marry her. His level headed friend Harry Carstairs thought that he had talked Joss out of his plan until he received a note the next morning requesting his presence at an inn. Upon arriving, he finds that Joss had gone through with his plan except he had kidnapped the wrong woman. Isabella Hathaway, who was in London, enduring the season, in hopes of finding a husband, is Joss's unintended victim. Since her father's suicide, her mother and sister's were left in financial and public embarrassment.Isabella offers to keep the whole kidnapping quiet, indeed to protect her reputation and hopes of securing a good marriage; especially after she learns that Joss is in love with Adora and mistook her for his beloved. Isabella offers Joss a plan; she will help gain Adora's affections for him, but he must steer eligible men in her direction. Since Joss and Isabella think along the same lines and tend to be loose cannons, they get along famously.Joss secures Harry's help, begrudgingly, to help weed out the men for a husband for Isabella.  All the while Harry is trying to restore balance and failing desperately, especially as he falls for Isabella.