A sigh for forbidden love!

Three Sins and a Scoundrel (Duchess Society #6) by Tracy Sumner       

Ah! My heart breaks for the young Miss Constance (Cece) Willoughby and Crispin Jasper Sinclair, “heir to a ragged barony.” So in love and separated at nineteen.

Cece is forced to marry the elderly, reclusive viscount, Lord Smithton, the Earl of Edgerly. Cecelia will be the Earl’s third countess. Crispin, changing his name to Jasper Noble, becomes an Intelligence Agent for the government. Fifteen years later he is embedded in the rookeries, a Shoreditch hooligan. He’s retired (a mystery here!) He becomes part of the Leighton Cluster. Crispin aka Jasper’s  turned legitimate and in business with the group—Xander Macaughley, Tobias Streeter et.al. (Tobias’ wife Hildy owns the Duchess Society, an Investigative Agency, who look into potential groom’s backgrounds for concerned ladies.)

Cece, the widowed Countess of Edgerly, has moved from Northumberland to the Earl’s Mayfair terrace  in London, a place she rarely visited in her fifteen years of marriage. Cece has decided to put her plans into place to find Crispin. (There’s many a secret here!)

A novel of second chance romance (definitely), of many surprises, of final happiness, despite the rocks strewn across that road, blocking moves at every turn.

A challenge only persons like Cece and Crispin/Jasper can thrive on.

As a reader I kept anticipating the worst, horrified that things might fall in a heap, yet at other times incredibly optimistic

Another super satisfying episode in Sumner’s Duchess Society series!

A Victory Editing ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.