The Earl is Mine (House of Brady, Book 2)
Pippa Harrington has one passion in life, and it isn’t Gregory Sherwood, Lord Westdale. To refine her sugar-sculpting skills, Pippa wants to travel to Paris to study under master chef Monsieur Perot, but Pippa’s stepfather is determined to marry her off to the odious Broderick Hawthorne. Disguised as a man, Pippa escapes from her home only to run into Gregory while traveling through the rain-drenched English countryside. Now, to avoid an arranged marriage with Broderick, Pippa must rely on Gregory for help by pretending to be his valet. Stuck at a country-house party with Gregory and forced to live in close proximity as his servant, Pippa quickly discovers there might be a very good reason all the other ladies in the town have fallen for him. Kramer continues her House of Brady series by focusing on the eldest sibling, and her fanciful characters and whimsical plotting make her humorous Regency-set historicals an easy literary transition for fans of Julia Quinn. --John Charles