A review by dianed
Earl of Scarborough by Collette Cameron

4.0

From the very beginning, you know that Ainsley, the Earl of Scarborough is going to have problems with finding a wife. He is obsessive, anxious and has a tic. He sticks blindly to a schedule and doesn't interact much with people. Even though he is a member of the Wicked Earls Club he is anything but wicked.
Coming home from the club one night he is attacked by a ruffian ont he street. He is holding his own until a second attacker appears. Meanwhile, a woman, Willow Harwood, is on her way to her new lodgins when she sees the scuffle. When the second attacker appears, Willow jumps in to help the Earl.
The next day, the Earl is at an employment agency looking for a new housekeeper and he runs into Willow again who has just been turned down as a potential governess because of her American accent. When the Duke sees her being treated unfairly, he offers her the housekeeper position.
She takes the position but the two in the same house makes it hard to avoid the attraction between them. It has probably been there from the beginning but once they are always running into each other when the move to the country it is hard to deny.
When the Earl's mother shows up, she helps tehm both realize that their feelings are more real than the problems with their social standing. It all laeds to a most wonderful Happily Ever After.