So I opened the book, expecting to read a few chapters last night and finished it before I could sleep, so today I'm not on all cylinders. For sheer dint of getting me so engrosed in the read it gets a bit more points than maybe it would have got in the cold light of day.

The first time Garrick Le Clere, Marquess of Beauworth meets Lady Eleanor Hadley is when she holds him up as a highwayman on his way home to the estate his family friend has been administering for several years. Garrick has issues and stresses and doesn't know if he can trust himself or anyone around him. She has lost the family home due to imprudent investments and now Le Clere's estate claims that there's monies owing, so they're out of their house and she needs to find cash somehow.

It's a romp through their lives and there's misunderstandings, evil villains who moustache twirl and tell the heroes their reasoning and all in all it's a fun read. ( )