In this Modern Wicked Fairy Tale, Bart Lamplighter and Eddie Vizard are two conmen banded together to avoid riding the 1930s rails by grifting. While Bart is driving a newly acquired, brand new Duesenberg home to the city, he can’t help but stop to rescue a lovely damsel in distress at the side of the road. Elizabeth “Libby” Bancroft is a smart, sassy socialite who drinks and smokes and is an … and is an “old maid” at the ripe age of thirty-two, at least by society’s standards. She has very modern ideas about womanhood, like being able to drive herself around in her own car—and she also happens to be the richest heiress in the state.
Libby mistakes Bart for one of the wealthy Fogler clan and he doesn’t correct her mistake. When she invites him to stay at her palatial estate, he can hardly refuse. So Bart tells his partner, Eddie, to don a chauffeur’s outfit to act as Bart’s driver-slash-butler.
The two of them set out to spend a few weeks sponging off the rich, but the longer the deception continues, the harder Bart finds himself falling for the beautiful young heiress—and the harder it is to keep up the lie.
Then, when one of Eddie’s crazy schemes falls apart, Bart is forced to make a choice. Will he defy Eddie and risk telling Libby the truth or will he continue the con in order to save their hides?
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Aladdin
New Modern Wicked Fairy Tales
Selena Kitt
This was a fun take on the Aladdin story. I loved the characters, and the storyline. This time the prince was a little more bedraggled but he had some redeeming qualities still!!
I normally love all of Selena’s books but I just couldn’t get into this one. It started off slow and I took an instant dislike to two of the main characters. Bart and Eddie, are both conmen looking for the next easiest mark, Bart was too excepting of Eddie with all of his excuses and showed an unrecipricated loyalty.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.