The Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr. Wright

by Tessa Dare

[Rowena]

Tessa Dare delivers yet another historical short story that I couldn’t put down. I read this whole thing in one sitting and loved every minute of it. This story follows Lady Eliza Cade and Mr. Harrison Wright as they take years to finally get together.

They met at a ball, hosted by the heroines family. A ball that the heroine was not allowed to attend because she hadn’t yet had her coming out but she was watching the action from the morning room and that was when she meets Mr. Wright for the first time. He’s also in the morning room and he’s there for some reasons that made Lady Eliza blush at the same time that she gasped in outrage. Harry Wright makes no apologies for the way that he lives his life. Society thinks that they have him all figured out and that he’s this scandalous, no-good guy when he’s anything but.

This story takes place over the course of a few years. They meet when Eliza was just a kid and then they don’t see each other for years and then come across each other again a few years later. Every time they meet up, they spar with words and Eliza makes it clear that she’s not a fan of Harry’s. Harry is taken with Eliza because he can’t help himself. He sees her for the person that she really is and not the person that everyone sees her to be. I really liked the way that Harry loved Eliza and then how Eliza came to love Harry. Their romance was sweet and it was funny and it was everything that I love in a romance.

Tessa Dare always writes such fantastically entertaining stories that I lose myself in and this addition to her backlist is no different. She’s wrote a well rounded story with two characters that made me laugh out loud more than once and kept me wanting more. I adored this book and can’t recommend it enough. It’s another good one from Dare. Can’t wait for her next release…she seriously rocks!