Deliciously clever.
A Royal Match Book 1: Last Duke Standing Book 2: The Duke Not Taken Book 3: The Viscount Who Vexed Me Book 4: An Inconvenient Earl.
Luka catches glimpses of the desperate vulnerability beneath the party girl exterior and can\'t help being drawn into the beguiling countess\'s ruse.
Or does she? It\'s hard to tell.
He\'s traveled all the way from Egypt, duty-bound to return to the countess her deceased husband\'s precious pocket watch--only to discover she doesn\'t know he\'s dead...
Then along comes Luka Olivien, the Weslorian Earl of Marlaine.
If the Earl is in fact dead, his family is waiting in the wings to swoop in and throw Emma out, leaving her destitute.
She\'s thirty years old and finally having some fun.
Emma likes being head of household in Albert\'s absence and does her best to keep his family believing he is alive and well.
The Countess of Dearborn has played the abandoned wife, but people are beginning to presume the Earl is dead, which doesn\'t suit Emma at all.
It\'s been over a year since Emma Clark\'s no-good husband left on an expedition.
Beguiling.
Beautiful. -- Booklist on The Duke Not Taken Bold.
Deliciously clever
