Highly improbable, highly improper situation
Gareth: Lord of Rakes (The Lonely Lords #6) by Grace Burrowes ...'scandalous, shameful, scounderlous bad man!' so Felicity Hemmings Worthington at one stage describes Gareth Alexander, Marquess of Heathgate. I must admit initially I had reservations about the plot. I really liked the main characters but, Yikes! the whole premise left me aghast and agape. Really I was halfway convinced that Burrowes had run amok and this novel was nothing more than a bodice ripper --albeit 'of the first water.' My perceptions were turned on their head. Gareth (the novel) emerged as an enthralling, deviously plotted Regency romance embedded in the idea of women and inheritance laws, reverting of land and titles to the crown where no male heir is found, ownership, brothels and prostitutes, and the legalities of this profession in these times. In an interesting appendage Burrowes discusses these factors. In this Lonely Lords episode a penniless spinst...