The Chick: Althea Morwellen
having given up on her coming out eleven years ago when the family’s money was in dire straights. She has brought the family back from ruin only to find out that her father may have ruined them again. She must enlist the help of her child hood friend. However, she and him have not got on since puberty and so she must disguise herself to get his help and hide the family’s disgrace.
The Dude: Rupert 'Gabriel' Cynster
A rake about town who is enlisted by a countess to help bring down a villian.
The rub: Unknown to him the countess is in fact his old childhood friend who he cant seem to be in the same room with any more. But he is quite happy to spend time with the countess
The Plot in 10 (ish):
Althea : oh no my father has gone and signed away all the estates money to villian.
The Countess: will you help me prove this is a villainous scheme and save the estate?
Gabriel: Im bored and you look like a nice project ...Ok. But I'll need a reward for my efforts
*Bown Chika wow wow*
Gabriel to Althea: hang on you look familiar, and smell familiar.. wait are you her?
Althea: damm got the perfumes mixed up... surprise!
Gabriel: I have just realised that I have loved you for a long time... marry me?
Althea: only if you say I love you
Gabriel: I love you
Huzzah!
The End
The Book:
Since her ruined season was ruined 11 years ago when she discovered that her father causing the estate to be ruined she has taken over the accounts and has scraped and saved so that her step brothers and sisters can have everything need, only to find that her father has unknowingly signed away all that she has managed to a con artist. She needs help to prove that the speculation is a con before the money entailed is called upon and the family will be ruined.
She knows one person who can help her, Gabriel Cynster. They played together as children but have drifted apart and now cant stand to be in the same room together. To hide her family’s financial crisis and to make certain that he will help, she conceals her identity using a black veil and pretends to be a widow countess. Knowing him s well she is able to present it to him to ensure he helps.
Gabriel is bored of the ton pursuits and agrees to help, he sets himself a challenge to conquer the Countess because she has an attraction he cant refuse. And requests that he is rewarded for his endeavours in ways that only she can full fill.
She makes him promise never to investigate her identity and never remove her veil. Under normal situations they cannot be near each other without verbal confrontation and barely touched each other in 11 years and so she is amazed by the attraction Gabriel has for the countess and she falls deeply in love with him and finds herself under pressure to keep her disguise a secret to ensure that Gabriel will help save her family and one evening accidentally slips by wearing the countess perfume.
This was a good book and a great addition to the bar Cynster. They are both believable characters with a nice development. I think it is a nice twist on friends who have known each other for a lon time but they see each other differently in disguise. There is a nice involvment of the rest of the Cynster clan, but no too pushy and it nicely interrelates with the rest of the books in the series.
I have read some of these series intermittently and so I can never remember who I have read about. It does seem a bit of an unnecessary thing to have them all to have nicknames with deadly connotations and I still haven’t found the book which explains why they occurred.
Some things I don't understand from the characters is how her father and step mother are completely removed from the financial accounts of the family. He is quite happy to let his daughter so everything, even when he knows he has possibly ruined them all by signing up to this speculation. He does not seam resourceful. There is only one little mention I think in which his wife says he is basically put out. Seems a bit too laid back to me and I think would have made the story a bit more believable. Although I am being a bit picky. The other thing that got a little annoying towards the end was the constant reference to the height of the two characters ( we get it, their both tall). When they are in a crowded ball room and they can look around and find people, I can understand. It was the mentioning of their long legs intertwined because she is tall, and apparently legs cant intertwine if they are of different heights. It probably doesn’t come up that much and im making a mountain out of a mole hill.
That said I enjoyed it and even her hesitation to say yes to marriage seemed appropriate and understandable. Which sometimes can annoy me. But I would definitely recommend it.
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