The Earl's Secret Bargain (Marriage by Deceit Book 1)

Started off promising but quickly lost momentum. Good premise but the story needed fleshing out, more obstacles to overcome. Protagonist male is rather two dimensional and doesn't do anything really to win his lady.

The storyline was ok. The concept could have been really good but the writer didn't fulfill the promise. Character development was poor and the story ended on a blind high note without satisfactory resolution of conflict.

Not for anyone interested in stories with period details correct. I only got 20% of the way through the book, and even then kept checking whether I'd missed that the heroine was an American frontierswoman. Possibly one who could travel in time. The characters were really transparent (the mother of the heroine makes Mrs. Bennett look positively subtle, and the villain is just bad for the sake of being bad in the most cartoonish way possible), but I'd have put up that for a bit longer to see if the plot was worth it if they talked or acted in a more historically accurate way. Even for a free download, this wasn't worth it.