I liked some ideas in this book however I skimmed often because I just wasn't into the writing, but ymmv! ( )

beginning=good, middle=boring, end=cute ( )

And Then He Kissed Her
4.5 Stars

Prim and proper Emmaline Dove has always maintained a strictly professional relationship with her rakish employer, Harry, Viscount Marlowe. But upon learning that he has lied about reading her heartfelt manuscripts, Emma decides that enough is enough and resigns without notice. At a loss without his sensible secretary, Harry resolves to get her back and soon learns that beneath her formal facade lies more passion than he could ever have imagined.

Emma is a lovely heroine and it is wonderful watching her emerge from her self-imposed restrictions and become the woman she was always meant to be. Harry is charming despite his womanizing ways and seeing him finally meet his match in Emma is very entertaining.

On a side note, this is the second book I've read recently featuring references to Consuelo Vanderbilt and her doomed marriage to the Duke of Marlborough (the 2nd being Murder on Fifth Avenue), and it was interesting to see the different ways in which the history was integrated into the storylines.

All in all, And The He Kissed Her is a delightful opposites attract romance and I look forward to reading the rest of the series.
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Re-read in July 2017 and am bumping my original review up to four stars. While I usually like a fair bit of angst in my plain/spinster heroine stories, I like this one well enough on its own merits that it doesn't need to cater to my prefered tropes. ( )

One of my favorites of Guhrke's. (It may have been the first of this author's work I ever read.) She's incredibly competent.

Is this one of those contemporary romances dropped into an historical setting?

Would a boarding house in 1893 stand for a spinster lady travelling out of town every weekend for two months? ( )