Two or maybe three times, K.J. has posted in the FB-group; ”Sorry I can’t do this next book in the series I promised. It will take a while longer. But here, have a completely new book I wrote while I was procrastinating.”

Think of England came about that way and I’m pretty sure I recall Any Old Diamonds had the same origins.

In November KJ shuffled into the group and did exactly this and we all snorted and said ”New book? Yes please!”

I tried getting an ARC but wasn’t lucky enough this time around so I had to wait (like a pleb) until release day which was on Feb 24th.
I had just started another book on the 22nd and not gotten very far so I have to admit I *did* hesitate to begin this one. But then I had the day off on the 25th and one thing led to another and suddenly I had finished and had the usual K.J. Charles book-hangover. (I’ve since read another book as well and not finished the one I had started. Ooops!)

I loved the title of this one and I had a laugh when I first read the blurb about a fortune hunter named Robin Loxleigh and his sister Marianne, and then I laughed out loud (for real) when I read he was from Nottinghamshire. It was so tongue-in-cheek.

Now, one thing I like about KJ’s books is that while they are romances and the HEA is guaranteed, I sort of never see how she will bring it about. In this case I felt that maybe the MC wasn’t really redeemable and I did worry if this would be the book where it falls short for me. I needn’t have feared.
Robin definitely earns his HEA.

Another thing I like about KJ’s books is that there is usually a nice gallery of friends for the MCs. They don’t live in a vacuum, and among these friends are women as well. Real women. Real, badass women. In this case two sisters and a niece, and they never fear telling the (sometimes) brooding MCs when they mess up – or anyone else for that matter, and the climactic scene at the end of this book is fantastically satisfying.

So again – yet another KJ book that I highly recommend.