How to Fall for the Wrong Man

Ladies of Passion, Book 3

By: Harmony Williams

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

If Mary Babington-Smith knows nothing else, it's that Lord Edwin Sutton kissed her. Regardless of who-kissed-whom, with the deed witnessed, they have no choice but to carry on with a temporary, fake engagement. When Edwin sweetens the deal, offering Mary the money she needs to pursue her independence if she can play the lovesick fiancée for two weeks, Mary rises to the challenge. In two weeks, she'll have everything she wants, and this time she'll be the one to walk out of his life.

Despite Sutton's argumentative, self-assured nature, when Mary glimpses a sliver of the boy he used to be, she vows to peel away every layer of armor he uses to shield his emotions. Somewhere underneath that worldly exterior is the kind-hearted man she once loved, but in order to find him, she'll have to give him the power to hurt her . . . and he's already broken her trust once.

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Harmony Williams (P)2022 Tantor

Good story

Solid main characters, although H could have been more dynamic. Feminist angle was well done, not superficial or strident. Nice twist on the “I always loved you, but didn’t realize it” theme with animal-loving heroine and absent-minded botanist hero. Overall good find on Audible Plus.

CUTE STORY

This was a cute story although I felt I could have done without the heroine having women lovers, just seemed unnecessary in the storyline, took away from the heterosexual characters for me. Didn’t seem to go in with the historical timeline to be so obvious. With her male fiancée having literally no comment about it in the book. Without that a very cute love story. The narrator blurred the lines between the male and female leads at times, I couldn’t tell who was speaking. The first two books I think she did a better job with that but she is good, I like her style.

Unsympathetic Characters

Not worth rooting for either the Hero or the Heroine. Both are simplistic, disconnected, cold, & unloving or attracting of love (as a whole). The reader just isn't ever convinced otherwise. The creativity of writing in first person as the Heroine was interesting, so I give kudos for that.