Marrying the Duke series

If you know nothing else about me, you should know I very rarely read books out of sequence.  When I’m assigned a book to review and it’s number two or three in a series, whenever possible, I seek out earlier books and read them in advance.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have the opportunity to read the…

Lady Charlene Blanchard, born to minor nobility and poverty alike, is socially and financially down at the heel due to her father’s poor choices.  The orphaned Char has become an adroit pickpocket to support herself at the suggestion of her former-actress-and-thief-godmother, Lady Baldwin, after Char was cut off financially by her loathsome uncle. She now…