![]() ![]() His deep green eyes lit up and a wide grin creased his face, sharpening a dimple in his cheek. Tristan Burke stared at her, and then he laughed. She beamed at him, instead of smacking him across the face as her hand itched to do. He looked at her, perhaps really paying attention to her for the first time. Heaven preserve me from such unbearable oppression.” I could never possibly understand what it’s like to be a gentleman with my own fortune, able to do as I please with no one to say me nay. ![]() She asks him why, as an independent man, he cares. When Joan approaches him and tells him she’s sorry for his loss, he kvetches to her about the way his relatives and society gossip about him. Tristan, now Lord Burke, is a tall moody man who has already began to garner a reputation as a rake. The second time they meet, it’s at Tristan’s uncle’s funeral. ![]() Joan is asleep in her room when Tristan bursts into her room, shirtless and carrying a single red rose. Tristan is up from Eton for the holiday with Joan’s brother Douglas. Joan and Tristan first meet when Joan is eight and Tristan twelve. Together, they are an engaging couple whose path to true love is sweet, believable, interesting, and sexy. The louche hero, Tristan Burke, is witty and wicked. Joan Bennet, the spinster heroine, has a sharper tongue and a sharper mind. Caroline Linden’s Love and Other Scandals is the best historical romance I’ve read this summer. ![]()
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