But honesty compels me to say that I found too many jarring elements in Rebecca Kelley's debut book. And when I found myself struggling to finish the story, I knew that I would have to rate The Wedding Chase as slightly less than acceptable. Rake finds woman strangely attractive. Rake pursues woman with less than honorable intentions. Rake gets caught with his pants down.
Rake has to marry young woman.
And it's the best thing for both of them. If Kelley had zeroed in on her plot perhaps the book would have been much stronger. But there was so much excess baggage that the storyline got obscured. Let me explain. Wolfgang Hardwicke, the Earl of Northcliffe first meets Miss Grizelda Fleetwood when he rescues her drunken brother from a gambling hell.