Waiting for a Scot Like You
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Eva Leigh concludes her Breakfast Club and 80s movie-inspired Regency series with a merry widow and a stoic major on a bumpy road to love... Adjusting to life in peacetime isn’t easy for Major Duncan McCameron. Escorting a lady on her journey north seems like the perfect chance to give him some much-needed purpose. That is, until he learns the woman in question is the beautiful, bold, reckless Lady Farris. She makes his head spin and being alone together will surely end in disaster. Beatrice, the Dowager Countess of Farris, is finally free of a stifling marriage and she has no plans to shackle herself to any other man. Ready to live life to the fullest, she’s headed to a week-long bacchanal and the journey should be half the fun. Except she’s confined to a carriage with a young, rule-abiding, irritatingly handsome Scottish soldier who wouldn’t know a good time if it landed in his lap. But maybe a madcap escapade will loosen him up... Between carriage crashes, secret barn dances, robbers, and an inn with only one bed, their initial tension dissolves into a passion that neither expected. But is there a future for an adventure-loving lady and a duty-bound soldier, or will their differences tear them apart? Don't miss the earlier books in the Union of the Rakes series—My Fake Rake and Would I Lie to the Duke are available now!
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This was an astoundingly lovely historical romance with: an age gap with the woman being the older, a stiff-backed military man forced to bend his self-imposed rules, a secondary gay couple, and doesn't end in a marriage or with the couple expecting a baby. All things that are relatively rare in this particular genre. I loved this. It was so, so much fun, with quite a lot of steamy bits interspersed.
Duncan McCameron and Beatrice, the Dowager Countess of Farris, are absolutely two puzzle pieces that needed to be forced together. They start off very prickly towards one another, but can't help but fall for each other as circumstance after circumstances smooshes them against one another. Beatrice is on a mission to go to an orgy held out in the countryside, and Duncan has been tasked with bringing her there safely. So so much goes wrong, but they manage to get through it all without major bodily harm. Duncan is SO rigid and unbending that it was a little frustrating, but Beatrice got him to warm to her relatively quickly.
BEATRICE herself is just...a warm spot of sun. She's a widow, and absolutely determined to bring herself as much happiness and joy as she can. Her thought process was literally, “If I want to do it, and it brings no one else harm, why shouldn't I do it?” She was delightful, and I loved her to pieces.
There are a few giggles, but honestly this one was just a huge breath of fresh air and I'm so glad that I read it. Four and a half stars!!!
