The Highborn Housekeeper (Harlequin Historical, #601) (Saved From Disgrace, #3)

by Sarah Mallory

A disgraced lady
Turned lowly housekeeper

Earl's daughter Nancy has turned her back on the aristocracy after fleeing a forced marriage, and now works as a cook and housekeeper. But in nursing an injured man back to health she uncovers a deep longing for the dangerously attractive Gabriel, and also a surprise: he's working to protect government secrets! She wants to help him. But to do so Nancy will have to return to the life she once cast aside...

• ISBN10: 0263081850
• ISBN13: 9780263081855
• Publish Date: 1 November 2019 (first published 18 June 2019)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 6 October 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Mills & Boon
• Edition: Large type / large print edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[celinenyx]

This book's biggest sin is that it's immensely boring. It starts off with a bang - Nancy finds a man freezing to death and after nursing him back to health, finds out she saved him from a murder attempt. This section is exciting, and the characters have good chemistry. The story capitalizes on this by...

Nancy and Gabriel dining together every night and having nice chats with some sexual tension.

I mean... I love good chats and food as much as anyone, but there was no conflict. The two characters both have secrets, but the reader doesn't know what they are, and it makes the characters inaccessible and flat.

The characters finally disclose Important Information to each other at 40%, but to be honest, I couldn't make myself care. DNF.