Rules of a Ruse

What a delightful book! I just loved it! Alden and Elinor are such great characters! I really enjoyed the banter between them. I also thought it funny that she was “helping” him find a match. And that they were both very afraid of spiders. Her Aunt Cecilia was also a great character and she made me......more

This book was not nearly as good as the first book. I didn't like the characters as much and the writing wasn't as good. I found some of the words and expressions that characters used to be too modern for the time period. There was also a little too much insta-love and Alden changed his playboy ways......more

I absolutely ADORED this book! "She needed to pretend to get along with him for the sake of the ruse. But once he failed to marry by the twelfth night, she would evict him. Not the other way around. " In this story Alden, "the spare" of the family is offered a horse farm as an inheritance IF he marr......more

Perfectly charming! Alden is cocky and Elinor is just the one to take him down a few pegs. I spent a good portion of the book laughing over the shenanigans Elinor and her Aunt Cecilia cooked up to try to run Alden out of Scotland—house spiders, sheep head soup and desserts made with calves feet, and......more

Alden is a second son and with that comes challenges. When his great aunt leaves him a horse farm, he feels like his luck and future are finally changing. The only catch is that he has to marry to inherit. Elinor has been living on and running the horse farm, while hiding from her uncle who had plan......more