Lady Jane Hamilton was snooping in her father's library-and she wasn't the least ashamed of it. To find her missing sister Cassandra, she would break into Westminster Palace if she had to. She never expected to find charismatic Robert Reed, the man she had adored since childhood, in the darkened study. And no matter what her sister's purported crime, Jane knew the true reason Robert wanted to find her-Cassandra was the woman Robert desired. Returning from the war to find himself the new Earl of Hazenwood, Robert had good reason to seek out Cassandra-she was accused of murdering his step-brother! Robert refused to believe it, but he couldn't deny the fact that little Jane was now a grown woman, and a spirited one, at that. Determined to join him in the search for her sister, Jane's presence was a distracting temptation-until Robert realized it was her love he wanted to claim.
This books threw be off from the start and I think it has those unromantic elements that made me want to stop reading it. I felt that the characters' emotions are too much tangled that they end up sounding ridiculous with the Jane wanting her to be treated as a woman by the man she loves and Robert trying to decipher if he was truly loved by Cassandra whom he cares about then later decides that he loves Jane. Their childhood past was a good base but their encounters in the present was so lackluster that I felt something was really lacking. It just did not reach. But since it is an HEA I guess everything is fine.