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Second Season

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This book was a pleasant surprise. I love Jane Austen and love the time period. I needed something close to Austen and this book came close. This book had some typos but you must put that aside. The book flowed and was easy to read. If you are in need of a happy feeling read this book. You can easly find your self cheering and laughing at certain parts. I recommend this book for a fun read.

(This book is nothing like a Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer story if that is what you are looking for.)

The hero, the Duke of Rutledge, comes off as a decent man although at no point could I understand how he could have the smallest interest in the heroine.

The heroine, Roxanne Winston, is full of hate and vengeance despite her supposedly religious leanings. She sometimes prays to be a better person but, alas, she remains hate-filled.

Roxanne's twin sisters have a major role in the story as two very zealous girls who attempt to show everyone just how immoral the ton gentlemen (and women) are. The twins are convinced they are the models of morality. The twins have so many faults themselves it is impossible to find their outrageous antics amusing in the least. Actually, they are quite irritating.

The story: 3+ years ago mama Winston refused to let her son, Roxanne's brother, enter the army. Son goes to London in a tiff and the Duke befriends him showing him the lighter and less than strictly moral side of society. Apparently the Duke and son have a falling out, engage in a duel, son thinks the Duke might have died and flees to the continent. Sometime thereafter it is reported the son died attempting to return to England. Roxanne, therefore, believes that the Duke is a murderer. She allows her hate of the Duke to fester for 3 long years following this suspect conclusion. At this point the H/H meet up. Early on in the story the reader learns the Duke actually has working ties to the government and one can draw the conclusion that the son is not actually dead but on a mission. Nevertheless, the reader is subjected to Roxanne's misplaced hate and unattractive behavior until nearly the end of the book.

What was especially disagreeable to me was this supposedly "christian" family extolling their virtuousness at the reader on page after page after page. They, themselves, had so many undesirable traits (hate, vengeance, lying, unable to forgive, just to mention a few) but were too busy pointing out the faults of others to ever recognize or acknowledge their own. In the end there was no relief from the highhanded moralizing and not one character that I could actually say I liked.