In Bed With The Earl is a spectacular historical romance by Christi Caldwell. Ms. Caldwell has provided readers with a well-written book populated with a phenomenal group of characters. Malcolm has made a living of spending nights in the sewers, searching for anything of value. Verity is a reporter for The Londoner and one of her co-workers has stolen her article about the missing Earl of Maxwell. Malcolm and Verity's story is packed with drama, humor, spice, action and suspense. I enjoyed every page of this book and look forward to my next book by Christi Caldwell. In Bed With The Earl is book 1 of the Lost Lords of London Series but can be read as a standalone. This is a complete book, not a cliff-hanger.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book that I received from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

4 stars

This was a good story. Malcolm had been kidnapped as a young child and his lineage and inheritance stolen. Verity is a journalist that has her stories stolen and so she sets out to find Malcolm and solve a mystery. During the story we learn a lot about the hero and heroine's motivations. The passion comes a bit later in the book but the slow burn is well orchestrated. There's an obvious baddie that a spotted but another is well hidden and was a surprise. This is the start of a series and I think it will be a good one. There's plenty of potential romances: Verity's Sister, her half brother Benedict and his sisters as well as Malcolm cousins.

I think readers will enjoy this unusual hero and heroine.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

*NetGalley Review All Opinions Are My Own*

What a fantastic start to a series I literally couldn’t put it down, Verity & Malcolm are just magnetic!

I will reread this book as I enjoyed it that much!

5 Stars *****

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WOW !!! WOW !!! WOW..... Superb , Beautiful & A Heart Touching book ...In Bed with the Earl "the 1st book in the Lost Lords of London " from Christi Caldwell is simply mind blowing .

I love to read Regency , Victorian , Historical Romances & Christi is one author who has just the right Flair of writing a Regency romance where wen reading her book , you visualize the story literary... The story presented by her is always unique , the plots so genuine ,gripping & the characters so real life ...she goes in the depth of the subject where u can relate to the matter ..I am saying these as frankly speaking i didnt know who a Tosher is ...i googled it & Christi vivid description was awesome..

The story is about Verity Lovelace ( the Illegimate daughter of Earl ) who is a reporter & Malcom North ( lost heir to the Earl of Maxwell) who is a scavenger (Tosher )... Verity wants to do a story on Malcom so that she can not only solve the mystery surrounding the lost Earl but also at the same time survive on the money got from the article wen published...Wll she be able to do justice to Malcom's story ????

Malcom is Kidnapped as a child, with no memories of his golden past, he prefers the sewers & the life in the underbelly of London where he is a self made man with a vast fortune through sheer hard work... then the gilded Riches of society. When Verity exposes him in her article he is suddenly surrounded with fortune-hunting matchmakers & his life starts taking a turn wherein he is not ready for a change ...

Malcom & Verity are thrown together by circumstances wherein both have to prove there mettle against the so called high society ... in the process of attaining there goals Malcom & Verity fall in love ... Will they be able to surpass all the obstacles, bias, ruin with there love..

The character of Verity is bold, forward , beautiful,passionate, loving , sensational, brave ... her will to survive in a era were women were just doormats is just awesome...Malcoms character is Handsome, compasionate, broadminded,progressive ....The plot is well developed & well presented ...the pace of the story is fast not boring ...it keeps you on hooks ...I finished the book in one sitting ...Overall a very good & unique concept ...Thank you Christi for such a good read ...

Thank you Net galley for a Free ARC ...you made my day...I highly Recommend that please dont miss this book you wouldnt regret it...

I’m not sure how Christi Caldwell does it, but she has delivered another tale that pulls at your heartstrings! Verity is on the hunt for the lost earl. She is the bastard daughter of an earl and the sole breadwinner for her younger sister and nanny. Malcolm is the lost earl. Currently a tosher in the sewers of London. I had no idea what a tosher was or their existence. Not a very forgiving or easy job. But it didn’t involve stealing! How the meet, their interactions- he is quite intrigued by her spunk- make for a charming story about love and family. Another winner!

When I read the blurb and saw that this had a lost lord that wasn't a gambling den owner or crime lord*, but a tosher of all things, I hit request instantly.

Then, I started reading it and the rats appeared, and I remembered that sewers have rats so any book that takes place partially in sewers will feature them at some point, and I almost abandoned it, because no offense to the rodentia lovers in the world, but they're one of the the things I hate most in the world. (They literally make my top 5 fears lists.)

Luckily, I kept reading and greatly rewarded and finished without any emotional trauma by excessive rat plots. [Spoiler on Goodreads review.]

✓s: Lady journalists! Toshers! Journalistic ethics! The side characters, family lines, family of choice lines! Also, I appreciated that Caldwell really incorporated Malcom's identity as a tosher into his characterization in a meaningful way, and not just like she picked it from an Unusual Historical Romance Mad Lib list. This worked with Verity, too. Plus, a side of betrayal! [Spoiler on Goodreads review]

✘s: My biggest complaint with every book lately, so it seems: the pacing. [Spoiler on Goodreads review]

tl;dr: 3.75. Come for the toshers and lady journalists; stay for them because they're awesome.

Disclaimer: Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for the free ARC, with no incentive or coercion on your parts.

* Not that I don't love these things with all my heart, but still.