Review: (3.5 stars)  Timing is everything.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
This is a well written and slightly different HR.  The H and h have grown up together, as neighbors in the countryside outside London, and are very close friends.  The H is in love with the h but she, unfortunately, loves her cousin, a man so unworthy of her love that you wonder about her I.Q., or, at the very least, her E.Q.H is a wonderful, kind, thoughtful, caring earl.  He is also careless about his looks and dress, although he himself is a fine specimen of a man.  When h's cousin goes off to London and society columns link him with the daughter of a duke, H kindly takes h to London as his mother's companion.  But that's not enough for h.  She want H to turn himself into a well-dressed, handsome rake and seduce the duke's daughter so she can have her cousin back.Anyway, what starts out funny takes a turn for the serious and even sad at about halfway in.  It's a "be careful what you wish for" and a "you don't know what you've got until you lose it" story.  Yes, there's the requisite HEA but it's a tough road to getting there.