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"Humorous, Delightful Victorian Romance"
Reviewed by Cynthia Meidinger
Posted August 1, 2002

Lady Evelyn Whyte desperately wants to save her aunt's wedding planning business. But she seems to keep making a mess of things despite her usual organizational abilities. So she has turned to Lord Justin Powell, who she had helped out of a precarious situation 10 years earlier. Read more...

"amusing late Victorian romantic intrigue"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 13, 2002

In 1885 Chelsea, England, by accident Lord Justin Powell finds himself in a potentially compromising situation with an underage teenager. Though nothing happened, he cuts a deal with Evelyn Cummings Whyte that if she keeps silent about their unfortunate unplanned "rendezvous", he owes her a future favor. She Read more...

Summary

The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Bridal Season returns to the elegant drawing rooms and sprawling country estates of Victorian England...in the captivating tale of a woman who must prove she can keep an irresistible nobleman?s most scandalous secret--without losing her heart ... Evelyn Whyte has never forgotten the night she first met Justin Powell--or the shocking indiscretion that left the raffish military hero eternally in her debt. Now, desperate to save her aunt?s foundering nuptial planning enterprise, she?s ready to call in her IOU. All she needs is Justin?s scenic ancestral home, where she?s determined to show the world that even a woman innocent in the ways of love can turn a simple wedding into the social event of the season. Ten years earlier, Evie single-handedly saved him from scandal-wagging tongues, and Justin never reneges on a favor. Now, unaware of the daring double life he conceals behind a cloak of amiable gentility, Evie and her wedding party descend on North Cross Abbey, where her curiosity and forthright manner could imperil them both. Pursued by enemy agents amid a whirl of festivities, Justin vows to keep Evie safe. But who will protect him from the charms of this alluring woman--and the promise of a matchless love worth any risk?