Lady Harriet Wheatley is a member of the Ladies of Virtue. Their latest quest is to rehabilitate the gentlemen of the ton based on the seven deadly sins. Harriet's target is Oliver Weeks, Marquess of Davenport.
Harriet longs to take Oliver down a notch after he cruelly rejected her offer to marry him when he was in desperate need of an infusion of money to his bankrupt estates. Harriet believes that Oliver is spending recklessly and is determined to change him.
Oliver's mother wants him to find a bride before she can find her own happiness. When Oliver sees Harriet again after being away from society for six years, he still desires her. Harriet wants to help him find a wife so he will stop his reckless spending, but she doesn't realize that the only woman he wants is her.
I was sucked into the book at the prologue. The characters were people that I ended up caring about. I felt so bad for Harriet when her mother and Oliver's decide that they should marry and Harriet approaches Oliver only to have him reject her. As the story progresses, I understood why Oliver didn't want to marry her at that point. Oliver was determined to rebuild his family fortune on his own, now with a wife's dowry.
I loved the plot of "the Big Misunderstanding". Oliver needed someone like Harriet to help him heal.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC provided by NetGalley and the publisher. Thank you.
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