A noble masquerade

This was such a romp! I loved every minute of it. If you need a good laugh, this is definitely the one to pick up. And yet, under the humor of it, there is the stark reality of the spies Marlow is risking his life to catch. There is drama and excitement.

What I loved best is how hard Miranda tries to be a lady. Yet she's always managing to mess up, to fall going down the stairs, to knock her food off her plate, to run into people in the hallway, even to smash her own nose into someone else's raised fist! Sounds like me.

I loved the men of the book, too—Miranda's protective brothers and the manly “Marlow”—thoroughly enjoyed these chaps.