Review: 3.5  Interesting idea, but I couldn't quite get behind the premise  ***SPOILERS***
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2013
I read this story as part of the Regency Romance collection of novellas by this author. I agree with the reviewers that felt the story was too short. It really should have been more detailed and expanded. The premise of the story was interesting and different. Unfortunately, I really can't suspend disbelief enough to accept that a rich and handsome gentleman with a title would have been shunned by all the women in society because of the social ineptitude described. When I first started to realize the direction the story was headed (which happened quite quickly), I was pretty incredulous. I could not imagine it working, or even being an acceptable resolution. By the end it had grown on me, but it did seem a little odd to me. ****SPOILERS**** The heroine ran six blocks to the brothel every time the hero showed up there? The heroine fell in love with him the first time they met, waited and waited for him when he left society, and then married someone else, but was later willing to sleep with him and let him believe her to be a prostitute for a few years, but only tells him the truth once he is advertising for a wife and she ends up being the final candidate? Even when he said he would give up everything to marry her as she was? What?!Given the nature of the story, the author kept the intimacy pretty low key. I appreciated that there were no gratuitous sexual details.  I have no regrets about reading this one, but it is probably my least favorite of the author's novellas.