Review: Quick, improbable, sexy and fun
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2010
When Jeremy Battersley, Earl of Henley, announces to his best friend Richard Huxley, Duke of Wexford, that he's found the woman of his dreams and he's finally ready to settle down, he has no idea he's set in motion a series of events that will either tear the two men apart or seal them together forever.  Each of them has fallen head over heels in love with a beautiful debutante of the season in London; unfortunately, it's the same one, the very lovely Cecelia Hastings.Cecelia is considered the most rousing success of the season; secretly envied by all of the other debutantes, pursued by the two most eligible bachelors in all of England, but she wants more.  Aware that both have approached her father with marriage proposals, she's frustrated that neither made even the smallest gesture of affection towards her nor bothered to ask her for her hand.  Determined never to have a loveless marriage of convenience only, she hatches a plan to meet the men one at a time to ask them to prove their ardor for her before she chooses which of them she will marry.  She never suspects they'll arrive at the same time.From the beginning, it's clear that this is fluffy.  The heroine and heroes are all too impossibly perfect and the plot is too dreamily fantastical to take terribly seriously, but this is written so earnestly and with such a deliberately spunky attitude that I was just charmed.  It's a short read with a good erotic element at the end; it really was one of the most implausible books I've read in a while but it was also a half hour that put a smile on my face.