Lord “Fancy Pants” and the reluctant debutante
Desperately Seeking a Duchess (All the Duke’s Sins #2) by Christi Caldwell
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Pleasing story about an illegitimate duke’s daughter who grew up in a mining community. Cailin Audley, is a young women without artifice, a strait shooter—mostly. When Cailin meets Courtland Balfour, the seventh Duke of St. James, pretending to be his twin brother and her father’s secretary, Courtland is thrown in more ways than one. Humorous! Did I mention the Cailin has brothers! Mmm!
Bentley and his new wife want Cailin to have a London season. Courtland is but a thread away from debtor’s prison. He is trying to hold things together to give his three young sisters the opportunities that is theirs to have (if only the estate can come out from under the looming spectre of bankruptcy). Keira’s employment is important to this plan. To assist Keir, Courtland decides to engage in the way the twins have always done, swap identities.
So Courtland meeting Cailin, in guise as his brother Keir, doesn’t factor in unexpected surprises that don’t matter, except when they do. By that stage Courtland (dubbed Lord Fancy Pants by Cailin) is well down the path of subterfuge, complicated by attraction, and Cailin’s in denial. It seems others must assist them with their affinity for each other, with disastrous results. I love fourteen year old Ellie. Courtland’s relationship with his youngest and decidedly quite a character sister is heartwarming.
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