![]() ![]() She’s always bucking against that role, barely able to keep her mother from chastising her, or doing whatever she wants when her mother isn’t there. Miranda, who is described in the synopsis as acting “every inch the lady” is never really shown to be acting like a lady. Miranda goes a bit batty, scenes are really confusing and plodding, and the whole angle of the duke as a spy is sort of shoved in the background, while also sort of being a big part of what’s happening. ![]() But then around the halfway point, things went downhill for me. Though Ryland (the duke) is a little manipulative, it really did start out innocent, and I think his motivations were sincere, if a bit flawed. ![]() So for the first half of this book, things were good. There’s just one problem–no one has seen the duke in 9 years…but on the other hand, maybe he’s actually right there at Hawthorne House. ![]() But when her brother’s new valet accidentally mails one and Miranda receives a reply from the Duke of Marshington, it sets off an unlikely, if tenuous, friendship. She never mails the letters, keeping them locked up in a trunk. She copes with these frustrations by journaling in the guise of letters written to her elder brother’s school chum, a man whose antics, as told by her brother, make her think he’d be of a similar mind to her. Lady Miranda Hawthorne has never appreciated the “lady lessons” her mother has forced upon her since childhood. ![]()
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