Delilah Marvelle

Lady Justine estaba dispuesta a perder su buen nombre, su reputación y su lugar en la alta sociedad londinense, siempre ávida de rumores, por conseguir la excarcelación de su padre. Pero cuando el legendario duque de Bradford respondió a su oferta con una proposición de matrimonio, la apuesta subió varios puntos. Porque aunque el seductor lord era famoso por sus conquistas, se mostraba indiferente tanto a su devoción como a sus encantos. Y Justine temería muy pronto haberse molestado para nada…… (mere)

Maybe 3-1/2. The thing that really held it back for me was that there was little to no tension between the hero and the heroine. They pretty much met and fell in love. The love story was sweet but not particularly "grand." Can't really tell you what "grand" is but I know it when I read it. The rest of the story was interesting. It was fun to read about the bare knuckle boxing of those days. One thing I didn't like was the simple fix of the heroine's life long health problems. The hero solved it in one go. It would have been more interesting to me if they'd had to work around her health and still lived happily ever after. Also the hero was 21 years older than the heroine but this was never mentioned at all. I know this was not uncommon in historical times but come on someone had to at least think about it. The hero could just as well have been written as 30 instead of 40 and it wouldn't have changed the story one iota but it wouldn't have left me wondering about why the age difference wasn't a bigger deal to someone.… (mere)