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A review by llamalluv
Love Is a Rogue by Lenora Bell
5.0
Popsugar 2022: 32) A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page
Such a cute love story and it was nice to have the love match be between a high born lady and a tradesman.
Beatrice is a duke's daughter, and all her life she's been told that the only thing she's suitable for is to be a nobleman's wife. She struggles to make friends among the other young women of the ton because although she has a slight facial deformity (it's described as a palsy -- I'm imagining Bell's palsy like what Nancy Zieman had) she is viewed as real competition on the marriage mart because of her large dowry.
Although Ford was a descendant from a wealthy family, his grandfather had cut off his mother when she ran away with a tradesman (his father, who raised him to also be a carpenter) and he grew up without any of the advantages that otherwise would have allowed him to be an architect, the work for which he has a natural talent and love.
Beatrice inherits a bookshop from an aunt she'd never known existed, due to her being cut off by the family under circumstances similar to Ford's mother's disownment, and despite her mother's objections, decides to keep the property and have it repaired to be used as a club house for all her "non-traditionally inclined" female friends. She hires Ford to do the repairs, despite her own better judgement and kissing and shenanigans ensue.
Such a cute love story and it was nice to have the love match be between a high born lady and a tradesman.
Beatrice is a duke's daughter, and all her life she's been told that the only thing she's suitable for is to be a nobleman's wife. She struggles to make friends among the other young women of the ton because although she has a slight facial deformity (it's described as a palsy -- I'm imagining Bell's palsy like what Nancy Zieman had) she is viewed as real competition on the marriage mart because of her large dowry.
Although Ford was a descendant from a wealthy family, his grandfather had cut off his mother when she ran away with a tradesman (his father, who raised him to also be a carpenter) and he grew up without any of the advantages that otherwise would have allowed him to be an architect, the work for which he has a natural talent and love.
Beatrice inherits a bookshop from an aunt she'd never known existed, due to her being cut off by the family under circumstances similar to Ford's mother's disownment, and despite her mother's objections, decides to keep the property and have it repaired to be used as a club house for all her "non-traditionally inclined" female friends. She hires Ford to do the repairs, despite her own better judgement and kissing and shenanigans ensue.