Review: The Rake above all Rakes...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
A Most Unsuitable Earl by Ruth Ann NordinEthan Silverton, the Lord of Edon, has worked extremely hard the past five years....at cultivating a reputation as a rake. A really bad rake. The kind that makes even the pushiest debutante's mother shutter. And it's worked so far, very few of the Ton want their precious daughters married to a man with such an nefarious reputation. Until one night at a ball all that changes. Between a momma set on his title and money for her daughter, a tiny lie and his interfering mother he finds his life has changed drastically enough to cause a grown man to swoon.Lady Catherine Morgan daughter to the Duke of Rumsey has yet to get a proposal even though her dear father has brought about every bachelor around for her that he can find. She may as well plan on giving up her dreams of home and family and accept her spinster status. Just when she has a glimmer of hope at meeting the right man, everything goes wrong. Before she knows it she is betrothed to the only man that would cause her to gladly stay a spinster rather than marry him.Ruth Ann Nordin has written another outstanding story. Not only does the book draw you in to where you don't want to put it down until the end but she has filled it with humorous situations. Lord Edon is not quite who he seems to be and the prim and proper, not to mention boring, Lady Catherine has a side to her worthy of his rakish rumors. The characters all have such unique personalities like Ethan's mother who you may want to lock away, or at least practice using duct tape on, and Catherine's father who enjoys scaring the heebie jeebies out of poor Ethan. What chance does this marriage have when it seems their parents are continually looking over their shoulders?**Sexual situations within marriage