The pair verbally spars, deeply mistrusts, and yet ultimately grows to care for and trust each other. Crawford will keep me in check should I be overcome with raging desire at the thought of you without clothing.” Apparently, she knew the worth of most gentlemen’s promises. “How do I know you won’t come in when I’m undressed?” Maxwell (aka Lord Dane) has no interest in the filthy woman he’s being forced to watch over as his brother continues to work other cases. The boss of her gang will never let her go – the only way out is death as far as she can see.

Marlowe is like no heroine I’ve ever read, and I loved how it was clear that she knows her stealing is wrong but she simply sees no way out of the life of crime. Shana Galen always entertains me with her novels and this was no exception. A kidnapped girl (we are shown the scene where it happens so that she is a lady isn’t a secret to us) raised in a gang now put into the home of a grumpy, judgmental, rude earl? It’s a recipe for fun and fantastic moments. Forced to bathe and given all the food she cares to eat- Marlowe doesn’t dare hope that she was born a lady but she certainly can make the most of the situation. That she was taken and raised in that gang but it isn’t her place.

That is, until an Earl and his brother kidnap her and tell her she’s the daughter of the Marquess of Lydon. She is a part of a gang in Seven Dials and she knows her place in life. Marlowe has some early memories of being called Elizabeth, but she’d never tell anyone. There was sausage and bacon and chocolate to think of. But she didn’t want to make him too angry. Earls Just Want to Have Fun by Shana Galen (Covent Gardens #1)įavorite quote: She’d have to prove she had bite.

To Ruin a Gentleman by Shana Galen