This book came in a timely manner and is a great read. I would recomend it for those who love a little romance and a lot of laughs.

This is a debut book and it shows. Not that the story is bad- I actually found it very refreshing and promising. The hero is a virgin (imagine that!) and the heroine is likable (although nothing special).

The plot was already discussed by other reviewers, so no need for me to repeat it. But I'm surprised that no one mentioned how 'modern' the whole book sounded. It almost felt as if MacKenzie wrote a contemporary novel and set it in the 19th century. The dialogs were so full of anachronisms that it was just hard to read. There was even a use of "ok" somewhere. This was a huge turn off for me and the book would deserve about 4 stars if this wouldn't be a problem.
I think that Sally MacKenzie is an author to watch for. I would not buy her books (yet), but I would definitely get them from the library.

I thought this book was great. I read this book in one day. I was impressed to learn that this was the author's first book. When I first tried to buy this book I couldn't find a copy anywhere under twenty bucks. Now I see it starting as low as two dollars. What gives?

This is just plain Boring with a capital B and Stupid with a capital S. If this is the author's debut novel I hate to see what her next book is like. Yes it's her first novel so I really should giver her a break but this book has nothing to recomend. James is a duke and Richard is after the title and in order to do this he needs to kill James and make it look like a accident. James is sweet but thats about it. She wrote no depth to her characters at all. I found him not the least bit interesting.

And then we have Sarah the oh so boring American who has come to look for her cousin who just happens to be James's friend. Don't you love coincidences. Blah! Sarah was found in a compromising position with James very early on in the book and they then are required to get married but headstrong annoying Sarah says no. And so we go on with her living at James estate I assume to make the story more interesting but it fails to do even that.

And the villian Richard - he was not even a villian, no suspense, no excitment just a couple of hundred pages thrown together to make a stupid book with less than average characters that you care nothing about.

The Duke's cousin is crazy and plots his cousin demise. James the Duke of Alvord needs to marry and produce an hire -soon. When he finds Sarah Hamilton from American in his bed he thinks all his problems are solved - or not. Great first novel - off to find more of this author.