He first spies her in the shadows outside a London theatre, a ravishing creature forced to barter her body to survive. To the woman known simply as Fleur, the well-dressed gentleman with the mesmerizing eyes is an unlikely savior. And when she takes the stranger to her bed, she never expects to see him again. But then Fleur accepts a position as governess to a young girl…and is stunned to discover that her midnight lover is a powerful nobleman. As two wary hearts ignite—and the threat of scandal hovers over them—one question remains: will she be mistress or wife?
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0Whew, trigger warnings abound. Very old school. The hero is married to someone else. The hero buys a night (?) with the heroine, very bad time, it’s her first time out of desperation. He hires her to be a governess. She’s traumatized by that night, plus her cousin trying to get in her pants for months/years and accusing her of murder. She’s hiding from the cousin. The heroes wife is cheating on him, and in fact, they have never been together because she’s in love with his brother. He’s a scarred hero from Waterloo.
This is like primordial Mary Balogh. She came along with her writing and this breaks romance rules before the rules existed. I didn’t love it, but I didn’t hate it either, it was mostly a sad read.
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