I LOVED THIS IT WAS SO CUTE

I am becoming quite the fan of Eloisa James. This is the second book of hers that I have read and I am very pleased to have found another author I enjoy reading.

I was shocked at the very end to see the setting was supposed to be 1799. Even the author admits to fudging the dates on some mentioned inventions, and the characters certainly didn't belong in the 18th century. That being said, I did like the characters and their sparring, but I found it difficult to believe it would take them so long to drop their original plans and realize that they love each other.

Didn't realize that this was a continuation of the Duchesses series until I started it. Enjoyable, fun, light read. Love India and Daughtry.

Charming and smart with a delightfully slow burn. This is not for the crowd that likes characters to hurl toward furious shagging or an HEA. Also, I learned about the history of vulcanized rubber, so that was fun.

Thorn, naturally a bastard son, has decided its time to get married. He's decided Laetitia Rainsford, a kind and beautiful woman who is perhaps not so smart is the one. Concerned, Thorn's stepmother Eleanor, hires Lady Xenobia India St. Clair to help Thorn and his abode into tip top shape to woo both Laetitia and her overbearing, highly critical mother. India has built a successful career for herself in a time when that is not the norm but she's ready to hang up her designer gloves and settle down in marriage. Not that Thorn is an option, the nerve of that man!

Funny, smart. I enjoyed a heroine in a regency romance that is independent and self-sufficient. No matter what the time period and the realities at hand-I hated that to be married and have children she had to give up her job.

I'm usually a big fan of Eloisa James. This book was a little different than I was expecting though, and it was actually those parts of it that led me to rate the book as a 4. Lady X, instead of a trollop like you'd expect, is actually Lady Xenobia India. India provides her services as a designer and household refurbisher (from staging furniture to sorting out the staff) and she crosses paths with Thorn Dautry (a bastard son of a duke hoping to make a good match) as he wants to make his newly purchased country estate fit for bride. The normal misunderstandings ensue and Thorn and India find they can't live without each other, but can they work things out before one or the other ends up married to someone else?