The Plumed Bonnet

Title: The Plumed Bonnet
Author: Mary Balogh
First Printing: 1996
Purchase Date: 13th March 2006
Purchase price: £5.52
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On book cover:

There was no reason for a lord as handsome and high and mighty as the Duke of Bridgewater even to glance at a humble vicar’s daughter like Miss Stephanie Gray. No reason except that the Duke was in need of amorous amusement, and that he was mistakenly convinced that Stephanie was precisely the kind of woman that she most decidedly was not.

It was one thing for Stephanie to be grateful to the Duke for rescuing her from a horrific highway mishap. It was quite another, however, to repay him by accepting what she long had been told was a fate worse than death. So when the Duke stooped to conquer, Stephanie rose to defend her virtue – only to find that even the most proper young lady on the brink of the deepest of dangers could nonetheless fall in love…

Comments on book:

I enjoyed this book from the beginning and I thought the emotional part of the story unravelled very well. I thought that it was really funny and equally believeable that the Duke could mistake Miss Gray as a less than respectable lady because of her outrageous dressing. As usual, Mrs Balogh’s understanding of the human emotions as portrayed in this book is completely awe-inspiring. This is the last of the series of 4 books which started with ‘Dark Angel’ also published by Signet.

Rating: 6.5/10 - A good read.