better than expected, Mr. Wolcott is an excellent character, more than he first seems ( )

I wasn't sure I would finish this book. After mostly enjoying the first book, I went into this book intrigued by where the next sister would go. Except, she didn't feel like the same sister for the most part. The book didn't make clear how much time had passed -- it was mentioned that the older sister had been married about a year, and later the heroine refers to her self as 20. I'm certain she was not 19 in the first book.

Regardless, she is passionate and immature, which is a combination that made me want to smack her. The hero is interesting, and his predicament is real, and I'm not sure why he was interested in the heroine at the beginning.

I pushed through to the end, and I was rewarded by personal growth from the heroine. I'll leave it at that. ( )

Megan Frampton knows how to keep the pages turning and this new installment in her Duke's Daughters series is no exception.

Lady Olivia is hopelessly in love with Lord Carson and she is convinced he loves her in return. So when she proposes to him and he turns her down, she doesn't quite know what to do, besides persevere. She concludes that all she has to do is to prove herself worthy and he'll come around. Which means she needs a project - some way in which to help Lord Carson - and what better way is there than to make a respectable gentleman out of his illegitimate best friend by getting said friend engaged to a lady? Tenacious and optimistic, Lady Olivia is certain she'll succeed, even if it will require resisting a man whose kisses are oh so tempting.

Edward Wolcott knows Society only tolerates him because of his father's wealth. He is keenly aware that he will never be 'one of them'. But when his ailing father asks him to find a bride and Lady Olivia offers to help him do so, he decides to go along with it. For his father's sake, of course. Not because he wants to spend more time with a woman as lovely and tempting as Lady Olivia. She is after all in love with his best friend and would never consider marrying a bastard, which becomes a bit of a problem with Edward must acknowledge that he's done what he never intended to do and fallen in love with the lady himself.

This was a fun read with an incredibly kind-hearted hero who's trying to find his place in a world he doesn't fit into, and a heroine whose tenacity prompts her to fight for what she believes in, including the right to marry the illegitimate man of her dreams. ( )