[BWF] Only a Viscout Will Do by Tamar Gill - 3 stars

[Theresa]

One night a highwayman called the Surrey Bandit stops a carriage with Lady Alice and her mother the Duchess in it, relieving them of a family heirloom emerald brooch. Alice, no delicate flower, challenges the bandit, trying to prevent him stealing the brooch. He does steal a kiss and the brooch in the end. The reader knows that the Surrey Bandit is none other than their neighbor Callum, Lord Arandyl, who has been forced to highway robbery in order pay his deceased cousin's debts to a viscious moneylender who has threatened his young daughter's life. We also know that there is serious chemistry and attraction between Alice and Callum, dating from the prior London season. From there the romance evolves, ending in quite a climax in a London slum before a HEA. The plot is a tad ridiculous as these things often are but what isn't ridiculous is the independent adventurous character of Alice and Callum's appreciation of it.

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