Emma Melbourne

This appears to be the author's first book and it's a good start. It's a Regency romance with appealing characters, lively writing, and humour. The heroine is a young woman whose father, a viscount, drowned himself when he lost a fortune at cards, leaving a huge debt of honour to an earl, who is the hero. The heroine's brother is in the process of losing everything that remains. The book begins with the heroine impersonating her brother to the earl in an attempt to negotiate a way of settling her father's debt.

This is a standard story done well.… (meer)