For the Love of the Gentleman by Callie Hutton

For the Love of the Gentleman by Callie Hutton
Series: The Noble Hearts Series Book #6
on April 15, 2019
Genres: Fiction / Historical / General, Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency
Pages: 164
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He doesn’t trust her, but they have to work together…

After eight years of the Marriage Mart, Lady Prudence is finished with Society. There is no man for her, and she will spend the rest of her life as a doting aunt to her many nieces and nephews. She will also pursue her art, a passion that has consumed her since girlhood.

After the prestigious Goddard and Reeves Art Gallery offers her an art show, she is thrilled to finally see her dream come true. Keeping her from total happiness, however, is the sharp-tongued Mr. Ashton Reeves who views her with contempt, and overly polite formality.

Ashton Reeves, the unacknowledged bastard son of the Earl of Stanhope holds nothing but disdain for the haut ton after the way his mother had been treated by Stanhope. The last thing he wanted for his gallery was to showcase a Lady of Quality who would no doubt treat the entire event as a lark and quickly give up her art for marriage to a lofty lord.

Swords crossed and arrows aimed, the artist and the gallery owner must work together to have a successful show. ‘Twould not be a problem if the attraction between them would just cease…

For the Love of the Gentleman is book six in The Noble Hearts Series by Callie Hutton. I adore Ms. Hutton’s books and I always enjoy reading them. I liked this book, but I felt it fell short of her past work. I kept waiting for “the hook” in the story, but it never came.  That said, I did enjoy Lady Prudence. I felt she was real and likable. I especially enjoyed the fact that she is a talented artist.

I have always been drawn to “enemy to lover” tropes. I liked the tension between Prudence and Ashton. Even though this one fell a bit short for me, Hutton is still one of the best romance writers out there.