As delightful as a light and fluffy cream puff from Monsieur Stohrer’s bakery, this book in the Georgian’s in Paris series captured my heart, and I savored every morsel of it.
Sofi Laporte continues to be a favorite author and an automatic-buy from me. Sofi’s books are always full of humor and sweetness, and this book was no exception.
I enjoyed the escapades of Melinda “Mellie” Findlay, who is so desperate to escape her arranged marriage to the French vicomte, she concocts ways to delay her journey, in the hopes of “missing” her wedding. Along the way, she meets a kind stranger who offers to accompany her to Paris. Little does she know, he is actually her fiance, in disguise as a plain and ordinary Scotsman. Mellie herself goes into disguise as a boy in order to travel with him without fear for her reputation, and through these antics, Phillippe falls in love with his bride, and she with him. He cannot understand why she hates her intended, a man she believes she has never met, until he discovers that she labors under the apprehension that he is a cruel man and a rake, like his father.
Only by proving to Mellie that the kind and gentle man she fell in love with is the same man as the vicomte she has been avoiding can Phillippe hope to gain her trust and finally bring his runaway bride to the altar.
If you enjoy sweet Regency romances with false identities, humorous adventures, misunderstandings, arranged marriages that turn into love, and tender, kissing-only scenes, then this is exactly the kind of book for you.
