I started out this book with high hopes. Just in reading the first few pages it made it seem as if I was reading a masterpiece of literature. Okay rather a bit of an exaggeration I know. But after the very painful reading of "A Spirited Bluestocking" and "The Thief of Hearts" this book was much better reading. Then something changed. By the end of the book I was wishing it would hurry up and end. There were too many over descriptive words. I mean how many 'stabs of longing, lurching hearts, pain shooting through breasts, seared hearts, constricted hearts, heart wrenching, heart exploding, yearning hearts' must you wade though before your own heart wants to stop reading the book! There was a lot over exaggerated emotion that seemed to go flying back and forth with the main characters, Athena and Sylvester. Along with this was the overuse of Regency 'drop words'. It didn't annoy me as much as the overindulgence of trite emotion. Maybe I should rename this book 'The Exploding Hearts Double Deception'.Oh yes, and I liked the picture on the cover of the book again.
Athena Standish was a beautiful young widow with a little girl to raise and a life on the icy edge of poverty to lead. Young Peregrine Steele might have been a trifle too impulsive for her, but he was too handsome, too adoring, and too rich for her to refuse his marriage proposal.
There was but one barrier between Athena and the sage haven to wedlock. Peregrine's father, the Earl of St. Aubyn, saw Athena as a wanton widow in search of wealth and set out to defeat her designs with every weapon at his command, from cold coins to warm kisses. This devastatingly attractive lord had not wanted a woman since his own wife died, but he knew all too well how to make a woman want him-as Athena was torn between the man with a ring for her hand and the one with the key to her heart....
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