Historical Romance
From Goodreads:
Sensible
and lonely, Olivia Mather survives by her wits—and her strict policy of
avoiding trouble. But when she realizes that the Duke of Marwick might hold the
secrets of her family’s past, she does the unthinkable, infiltrating his
household as a maid. She’ll clean his study and rifle through his papers
looking for information.
Alastair de Grey has a single
reason to live: vengeance. More beautiful than Lucifer, twice as feared, and
thrice as cunning, he’ll use any weapon to punish those who fooled and betrayed
him—even an impertinent maid who doesn’t know her place. But the more
fascinated he becomes with the uppity redhead, the more dangerous his carefully
designed plot becomes. For the one contingency he forgot to plan for was
falling in love…and he cannot survive being fooled again.
Fool Me Twice uses a familiar trope
– getting a job in a peer’s house for a personal reason. The person is Olivia Mather, the search
is for proof against someone trying to kill her, the job is housekeeper. Olivia and her past are what makes this
use unique.
I loved Olivia. She is strong and has looked after
herself since she was 16. Part of
what she has had to do involved running for her life as someone is trying to kill
her. At first there is no clue why
but long before it was revealed I knew the reason. I will confess I did not know the person until the end.
Alastair de Grey, the Duke of
Marwick, owns the household where she got the job. He was not nearly as strong as Olivia. In fact when his wife died and he
learned the truth about her actions he fell apart. Olivia has to get him on his feet to find the information
she needs. Olivia has to make some hard decisions and Alastair has to come to terms with how the past is keeping him from trusting anyone. If that happens they can have their HEA.
Fool Me Twice is a fun read with many twists
and turns. It combines romance with danger while keeping the reader glued to the pages.
This is book two in the
series. I read it as a stand-alone
and even through there were hints about things I missed in book one they were
not that important to the story.
Pocket Books published Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran in 2013.
I received an ARC of Fool Me Twice
from Edelweiss.
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