

Ian's declaration of love to Sophia is alone worth the read, and I love this author's way of communicating deep feelings in very few words. I struggled with Sophia's resistance and her reasons for denying Ian. He was simply an awesome hero and his love for Sophia was clear and honestly communicated. Ian Broderick is the stuff that dreams are made of. Ian is determined to find her and spends the next six months searching for his lost love. Sophia sees this relationship as impossible and leaves Ian one night with only a hastily written goodbye note as an explanation. Sophia is also twelve years older than Ian. In reality, Sophia is a widowed Countess and Ian is the Earl of Marlington.

Neither of them reveal their true identity and let one another believe that they are both "commoners". Ian Broderick and Sophia Mallory meet one summer afternoon and begin a whirlwind affair that sweeps them both off their feet. Jacquie D’Alessandro provides a delightful Mayfair Ladies Literary Society historical.I can't help wishing.If only this would've been a full length novel! Logan is her perfect opponent as he plans to take a bite out of the schemer’s plot for his use. The whimsical story line is fast-paced from the moment Lady Emily decides on direct public relations with the nocturnal appearance of her vampiress. The latest Mayfair Ladies Literary Society tale (see SEDUCED AT MIDNIGHT, CONFESSIONS AT MIDNIGHT and SLEEPLESS AT MIDNIGHT ) once again will keep the audience up past Midnight an amusing late Regency romance. As he is beset by a series of accidents, he plans to take advantage of Emily’s scheme to further his business, but neither he nor his authoress expected to fall in love. Visiting American businessman Logan Jennsen knows a scam when he sees one and believes Emily has pulled a ruse. The Ton is agog with everyone wanting to know who this woman is even as Emily sells her novel. She appears as a strange female wandering the night like a vampiress. Still choosing to lesser of two evils selling her novel over marrying, Emily decides on a desperate ploy to garner interest in her heroine. She is stunned when her publishers reject her work. She prefers the effort to sell her book starring a female vampire. Her choices are to sell her novel or marry rich. In London Lady Emily Stapleford needs money or she will end up in the poor house.
