Taming A Scandal

Mercia Sanders has been evicted from her boarding house, and now her father has set a decision in front of her. Either she allows herself to be courted by the son of a Newport business owner, or she goes to her brother's ranch and stays out of trouble. Pinkerton Agent Dominic has been hired to keep her under surveillance. Can these two find love under such circumstances?

This was a clean read, I will give it that. However, I found little I liked about Mercia. She starts out a spoiled socialite, and she doesn't change through the story. At no point does she admit she may have made a mistake or that her father was right. Instead, she forced everyone to conform to her viewpoint. Her independent attitude didn't feel right for the time period.

Dominic was a bit more interesting, changing disguises to keep from getting noticed by Mercia. But that also makes it even more unrealistic. While I accept that he falls for Mercia, what basis does she have for loving him, when she's never met the real him?

Not my favorite read, but other's might not be as particular as me.

This book was a great light read! A little romance, with some mystery! I will probably look up the other titles in this series!

Mercia Saunders was studying art at the Pennsylvania Academy, when she took her sketching too far and they shipped her belongings home to Newport, Rhode Island. Her father Adam isn’t impressed, he gives her two choices, marry one of the three men he has picked out for her or visit her brother Fitz in dusty Texas.

Mercia likes her comforts, shopping, social life and being banished to Texas sounds boring and she hasn’t seen her brother in seven years. But, it’s a far better option than marrying one of the men her father has chosen, she packs her trunks and begins her journey west.

Her father has organized for her to travel with the Williams family, they stop in Chicago and then she leaves civilization behind. Pinkerton Agent Dominic Prentice, is trying to find a stolen locket and Mercia’s father has employed him to keep an eye on his daughter as well.

He finds Mercia very attractive, he goes by the name Grant Preston, and she gets rather flustered around him. While staying at the Star S Ranch, he notices Mercia has drawn a picture of the locket he’s being trying to locate, and a lady was wearing it in Chicago. Allan Pinkerton’s impressed with Mercia's drawing skills, he offers her a job working as an artist for his agency and Dominic asks her to marry him. I received a copy of Taming A Scandal in exchange for an honest review, a sweet romance and three stars from me.