No book is perfect, and ultimately that is what makes them so useful as well as enjoyable. There were a couple of things that made me wince or cluck my tongue a little bit. They are a perfect match, but of course the path to love does not run straight. The heroine, Minnie, is firmly middle class with some decidedly unusual secrets in her past. Sure, the hero, Robert, is a duke, but he is a very unconventional duke. Not only does she write in a non-standard historical time period (the 1860s), she writes characters who are not your standard upper class, wealthy, titled romance novel fare. I love how deep and dimensional Courtney’s characters are. So naturally I had her sign a copy of The Duchess War for me, and I actually paid for it too! It was the first of the 30+ books I got in Atlanta that I rushed to read. Then I met Courtney in Atlanta during RWA nationals and found her to be a really nice, brilliantly intelligent person. I read The Governess Affaira couple of months ago and absolutely loved it.
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