This was charming as usual and had me totally invested. And I liked the hero here better than the first of this series. MacLean again proves how smart she is. I love the tabloid fodder inspiration of this series, which allows the exploration of a lot of gender issues within the time period's context while also seeing the parallels today. It is just really well done and one of the many reasons this is one of my go-to romance author recs. Sure, toward the end we had a couple false starts in getting over a character hurdle, and it got a little "come on I thought we solved this." But I devoured this.