She simply must set everything to rights -- though she'll kick up quite a fuss to do it! Lady Barbara Saunders -- or Lady Bee as the saucy minx was affectionately called -- could only regard Lord John Connwood and sigh. Such a fine man... yet promised to another. As she was barely out of the schoolroom and had not yet a Season in London, Bee reasoned he was quite beyond her reach. Yet she couldn't stand by and watch him marry for convenience a lady she suspected of dubious virtue. She never dreamed of the intrigue, peril, and (dare she hope!) love that awaited in her grand design to undo such a grave mismatch!
This would have been so much more enjoyable if it wasn't so predictable. I loved Lady Bee's married couple friends--the hero was pretty good, in a stalwart "Earl of Worth" sort of way but I got So. Tired. of him always calling Barbara child. Felt a little creepy.
Also, the plot was circuitous. Everyone always knew the identity of the villain so it seemed like just marking time until the end of the book for him to come to an untimely end.