General Mark Grimaldi is almost at his career goal - promotion to Home Secretary but with one condition: Mark needs a wife. No problem! Mark has a wife stashed away in France. For TEN YEARS. Now, Mark must go to France and convince his wife Nicole to return to London and play the part of his beloved wife. OMG.
The plot intrigued me. Battle-hardened General with a career goal needs his estranged wife. But, then other things got in the way of the reconciliation and overshadowed it. There was the murder of Mark's cousin that mark and Nicole were investigating shortly after their arrival in London. The murder throws Mark into a tail-spin. He is now the heir to his dying Uncle's dukedom. And Mark doesn't want to let anybody know about his mother's side of the family because of how they treated her after she married a poor Italian immigrant shoemaker. The flashbacks were annoying. Mark and Nicole's stubbornness was annoying. And Corporal to Major General to Home Secretary in ten years? Someone had to know Mark was the nephew of a duke. The whole "codicil that allowed for the duchy to be passed down via a female heir if and only if a male heir existed on that side" felt like it was thrown in after realizing that Mark was related to the Duke via his mother.
I received a complimentary ARC from NetGalley and the publisher. Thank you.
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