When Rose Farthingale is saved from the rubble of her pottery workshop, she knows that she must repay this debt to her handsome rescuer by abducting him (at his family’s desperate urging) in order to save him from the clutches of the scheming woman he is presently courting and intending to marry. But Rose never expects to be abducted with him, or to fall in love with him over the course of their … their captivity.
Viscount Julian Emory is a secret agent of the Crown on an important mission to destroy the spy ring Napoleon has established in London. The woman he’s pretending to court is one of Napoleon’s most important spies, for only she knows the identity of the traitor within the royal inner circle. He’s purposely encouraged the courtship and marriage rumors in the hope she will make a slip and disclose the traitor’s identity, but his meddlesome family has just ruined his plans. By forcing him into close quarters with Rose Farthingale, they’ve put both his mission and this delectable innocent in danger. Can he keep himself from falling in love with Rose long enough to bring down Napoleon’s spy organization?
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This story was great. It had romance, spies, danger and a happy ending. All elements of an interesting and heartpounding story.
I do liked this nice read, it is a sweet regency romance with funny and cute moments.
There are few angsty moments, some bad guys and a treacherous plot.
But in all it was a lovely story about two people falling in love not at the best timing.
Rose is a kind and adorable young woman, she has arrested ideas about what she hopes for life, but in these times, independence and intelligence is not something recommended for women. She is lucky she is from a family which praises their kind’s wits. She just never expected to fall for her best friend’s brother, a man who is wooing an other woman.
Julian is on a mission, so his encounter with the lovely Rose could not have come at the worst time, when he has to seduce an other woman. But the more he is around her, the more he is drawn to her, which is endangering his duty to his crown and brings threat in his own circle.
But he will do anything to protect his and the woman who silently took a big place in his heart.
It was sweet to see their game of on-and-off-thing, added to this the not-very-secret scheme of Julian’s family to keep him at arm-length from the dark countess.
An entertaining sweet read, and the first one to read in this series even if it is the number 5 in the publishing order, thanks to an other reviewer who pointed the right order. So the book 4 is next to be read.
I loved this story. There is intrigue, romance and a little spice. Apparently, the Farthingale women are beautiful and Rose is no exception. This story has it all, an evil countess and her minions, spies, treason, and murder, crazy family members and our own Bond, Viscount Julian Emory. This story is fun filled and action-packed with our own naive and eccentric Rose Farthingale.
I love historical regency romances & when you throw humor into it, well it’s all the better! This one is full of humor (as are all of the others in this series) & it is such fun & it warmed the cockles of my heart!
Julian is a spy for the Crown & takes this very seriously & doesn’t want or need any distractions from his missions. However; things never go as planned & a distraction named Rose Farthingale jumps in to the middle of his life. Julian is not just distracted with Rose; she has clawed her way in to his every thought & planted herself in his heart just by being her warm, loving, opinionated self. When you add all of her loving, caring & conspiring family members to the mixture, well it ends up as a hilarious, fun & HEA experience!I
I highly recommend this book & the whole series – they are written backwards in time, so I would read this one first & work your way backwards to Book 1. Either way you will not be disappointed in the series!
Loved, loved loved the whole series! Even though is is out of order!
this whole series is wonderful. totally recommend
Love the Farthingale’s.
A light fun read for an afternoon.
While I liked the end of the book, it did not solve the sub plot of who was the traitor.
This is just a fantastic series by a wonderful author. Great witty characters and loads of romantic fun.
**** Read first in this series even though this is book 5!
Rose Farthingale is the oldest of 5 sisters. She meets her best friends brother Julian when he rescues her after her kiln explodes, and it’s love at first site for both of them. Only Julian is escorting a widowed Countess to parties much to his family’s dismay. His family and Rose scheme to get him away from her but all their plans go haywire at the get-go. Julian is working undercover for the crown and the Countess is the target. Now Rose and Julian’s sister have put themselves in trouble and Julian must protect them both and find the traitor associated with the Countess. This story is funny, passionate and full of intrigue. Another great story from Meara Platt!
It begins with a bang and ends with another of a different kind. Very well written.
The story is full of bright wit, has a clever plot, enjoyable characters and it is a lovely story that kept me turning pages right to the end.
I really felt entertained and enjoyed reading this book.