The Absolutely Positively Worst Man in England, Scotland and Wales
Anne Stuart
Kit Adderley is the worst man in England, a bored libertine who’ll do anything to entertain himself, including kidnapping the strong-minded, freckled dab of a girl promised to his partner in crime. Bryony Marton is trapped in a quiet life and looking for escape, when her awful fiance’s best friend inadvertently offers it. Everything would be fine if he hadn’t kidnapped her pretty young cousin as well. And now there’s a handsome young Bow Street Runner chasing them..! On the road, Bryony embraces her freedom, and she’s more than willing to embrace her captor, a man who kicks over convention and isn’t nearly as bad as he and the rest of the world think he is, but now she has a new how to convince the worst man in England, Scotland and Wales that he’s the best man for her?
Publication Year: 2010
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0Missing a little more backstory on the hero, but maybe we didn’t need it. Is he REALLY BAD? Mostly. But maybe sometimes he uses his bad for good.
Adderly does a full kidnap in order to ensure his more evil best friend can pay him a gambling debt. Or… did he find out his evil friend tricked a rich girl into marriage and might kill her later, so arranged the whole kidnapping to find out the situation for himself? Adderly never pretends to be nice, he tells everyone how bad he is, over and over. But occasionally we see hidden motives that might be the real story.
His immediate attraction to Bryony is hot, he doesn’t care about her traditionally beautiful cousin, he doesn’t understand why, but he is intrigued.
I didn’t really care about the secondary love story here but it was fun.
Did need more grovel at the end. It felt like the end of My Fair Lady when Eliza acts like Higgins idiot behavior is fine and allowed forever.
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