Review: A charming Regency romance.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2014
After her father dies, young "Brie" is finally forced to leave her beloved country home and accept her elder sister's offer to "set her up for a come-out Season" in London. While she endures her sister's efforts to "make her over into debutante", Brie finds herself the focus of another person's assistance.  Duke Devon of Raversham had lost a bet with his best friend, but he cannot pay for his loss with money. Instead, his best friend insists that Devon must promise to give his assistance to the very next man to enter the door of their gentleman's club. Finally, a man enters through the door; it is Brie's brother-in-law. Although the Duke thinks Sir Seymore is rather a simple-minded dandy, he still explains to Seymore that as payment for his lost wager, he will help Seymore with any matter that he needs help in doing.Sir Seymore has a flash of inspiration, he asks the Duke himself to escort his young sister-in-law from the country to the best of the upper class dances and parties to assure young Brie's successful start to her Season. The Duke is shocked, but he cannot refuse. What follows is an amusing story that pairs two unlikely people together. As fate would have it, when the Duke and Brie are introduced they are both shocked when they recognize each other from a rather angry encounter at an inn outside London only week before. Brie does her best to follow her sister's instructions on behavior and dance as well as the Duke's own suggestions for new wardrobe fabrics, but she cannot help but voice her own opinion at times. A disgruntled suitor starts a rumor to ruin Brie's reputation and shock her sister intosending her home in disgrace, but how the rumor is stopped is best left for all new readers to discover. An enjoyable regency novel.