Constance is a heroine for anyone who has ever found their impetuousness, their fickle nature, or the way they wield charm and self-deprecation as a weapon used to label them “unlikable.” She’s deliciously complex, utterly engrossing, and a study in contradictions in the way the best characters always are – a fact only made better by the notion that female characters are so rarely permitted to be thus, even in the romance genre. Peckham writes with a swirling, intoxicating combination of wit, humor, and dazzling word-play – a literary cocktail nearly as heady as the confectionary pink gowns and stunning silver tresses of her heroine. But Constance discovers the Earl is not quite as boring as she once thought, particularly because he’s been nursing amorous feelings for her for nearly a decade. When Lady Constance Stonewell accidentally ruins the Earl of Apthorp’s reputation with a bit of mean-spirited gossip, she offers up a plot to save him – a fake engagement. Review: Peckham continues her irresistible, wildly sex-positive The Secrets of Charlotte Street series with The Earl I Ruined.
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