![]() ![]() ![]() One night Lord Ragsdale saves Emma from a horrific fate and winds up with her indenture papers. She also happens to be an Irish indentured servant. Okay, I know what you’re thinking: spunky Irish maid, too tantalizingly sexy to ignore, innocent but tempting – spends a lot of time “trembling under his lustful gaze.” Often says things like “unhand me sir.” Well, not exactly.Įmma Costello is a woman of education, beauty, strength, and uncommon good sense. When Lord Ragsdale meets his intellectual match it is in the person of a servant, Emma Costello. ![]() But this book has a different, refreshing perspective which, I believe is utterly American. If this were a typical Regency Romance, Lord Ragsdale would soon meet a feisty and irresistible female member of the ton, with whom he would form a passionate attachment. Luckily, as readers of the book, we get to eavesdrop, but it makes his own life quite dreary. Rather than trying to remedy his plight, he spends a good deal of time talking to the wittiest and most intelligent person he knows, namely himself. Saddest of all – he cannot speak of his grief over his father’s death.īut Lord Ragsdale takes this reality in stride. This fascinating man has no one with whom to hold a worthwhile conversation or share his hilarious and insightful jokes. He squanders his talents on careless amusements, and surrounds himself with people who have not one half of his insight and wit. Lord Ragsdale is an intelligent and witty man who is bored. ![]()
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