"A Dangerous Love" by Sabrina Jeffries

A Dangerous Love by Sabrina Jeffries 2000

"A Dangerous Love" is the first book in the Swanlea Spinsters series. It is the story of Marsden Griffith Knighton ("Griff"), who has been wrongly denied his inheritance of the Earldom of Swanlea, and Lady Rosalind, a passionate and rather eccentric young lady who is the daughter of the current Earl. Wanting to see his daughters taken care of before he dies, the ailing Earl of Swanlea blackmails Griff with proof of his legitimacy. He can have the proof of his parents' marriage if he marries one of the Earl of Swanlea's daughters. Griff is having none of the marriage, but decides to play along and recover the marriage certificate himself. To do this, he switches places with his man of affairs - Daniel Brennan - the son of a notorious Irish highwayman who must pretend to be Griff while the real Griff searches the house. Rosalind is suspicious as soon as she finds the (real) Griff snooping around her father's desk the first night he is there. Following him around wherever he goes, a passion ignites between them that neither of them expected...

This book is fun, if a little complex. It's also a bit unrealistic that Daniel Brennan would be taken for a gentleman, although Jeffries counters that by the fact that Griff is a tradesman, so people expect him to be a little gruff. There are some anachronisms in this book - I found myself constantly asking myself if that would have really happened, or if Rosalind really could have gotten away with that, and the language seems a bit modern for my taste. Nonetheless, it's an enjoyable book, and a quick read. This, like the rest of Sabrina Jeffries' books, is also packed full of sex and innuendo, which is generally pretty steamy. ;)

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