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Loading... To Con a Gentlemanby Sarah Adams
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Historical Fiction.
He was her target. She was his diversion. Falling in love was never something they wanted. As a con woman who has spent her entire life fending for herself on the streets of London, Rose Wakefield knows how to scam a gentleman out of his money without ever getting caught. That's until she knocks on the wrong earl's door and is faced with Carver Ashburn Earl of Kensworth and not the notorious rake she thinks she is approaching. Carver is a good man, but even a good man will not pass up an opportunity to escape his grief. What better way to avoid his feelings than to play into a con woman's ruse and offer to marry her? Things only grow more complicated when Carver sweeps Rose off to his family estate and circumstances force them both into continuing the ruse. Carver needs to protect his family, and Rose needs to protect herself-and her heart. With so much set against them, will Rose and Carver have a chance at love and freedom? Or is the possibility of more heartache not worth the risk? No library descriptions found. |
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Still, I thought the idea for the plot was novel; I always have admiration for the writer who thinks up one more way to have people meet and save each other.
Rose is a good hearted professional thief. Carver is a rake with a heavy heart. He is the target of a con by Rose to get money out of him to support a woman he has supposedly wronged.
Unsurprisingly, the stage is set for them to fall in love - he sees right through her con, and he is not what she expected.
They are an unlikely pair - from different stations in life.
The initial lightness is replaced by a tone much more serious after we fly past the witty 'con' part of the novel. The irony is that, in the second half, at Carver's instigation, he and Rose con his family when she acts as his fiancé to keep his family happy, and wannabe suiters at arm's length.
So the tone is not consistent as the latter half becomes quite sad - and frustrating - as Rose and Carver find a way to know each other better in that stifling world of the Regency? period. (