MY LORD SCANDAL

Author: Emma Wildes ISBN:9780451231062 9/2010 HISTORICAL Publisher: SIGNET
Time Period: Regency

Alexander St. James may be a thief of hearts, but he is no burglar. Nevertheless, he must recover and item belonging to his family to avoid a scandal, and so he has stolen into the home of Lord Hathaway, only to come upon the beguiling and chaste Lady Amelia in her bedroom, wearing little but a look of surprise. Alexander leaves Amelia breathless-but is it from fear or excitement? Captivated by her beauty and charmed by her intellect, he ignores the scandalous whispers as he sets out to seduce the woman of his dreams...

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

It does no disservice to this novel to say the cover was my favorite part of this book. I liked the book! But the man on the cover, while not exactly the same description as the curly-haired hero, is gorgeous!

Alex St. James survived five years with Wellington’s army before returning to England to take up duties among his duke father’s estates. His past acquainted him with certain skills not common to the ton, though, and he agrees to break into a house to retrieve something for his grandmother. Hiding on a balcony, he meets Lady Amelia, a young, innocent beauty who suffers from asthma, and helps her during an attack.

While they are instantly attracted, it’s going to take some Romeo/Juliet machinations to find any time together, since their families are feuding. The characters are charming together and the sex is, well, sexy.

With a surprise ending, MY LORD SCANDAL is an above-average Regency novel. I look forward to reading the next two books in the series!

Heather Hiestand