Review: Lady of Fortune

Lady of Fortune by Mary Jo Putney
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

2.5 stars 

Christa is on the run from France's Terror and as our inherited countess is escaping, she thinks her brother and her mother are murdered. She arrives in England to her uncle by marriage where he decides to be a creep and try to pressure her into marrying him. Thinking she has no money but as a twenty year old, can't imagine marrying a forty year old, she runs off. She finagles her way into being a lady's maid but the Lord of the home is also a creep and she ends up getting thrown into the arms of another Lord (can't kick a rock and all that) and he is taken with her and brings her back to be a lady's maid for his sister. 

They start to develop the hots for each other but are aware of how inappropriate the relationship would be so try to keep their hands to themselves. Christa doesn't feel the need to tell him that she's actually nobility, because then, well, I didn't totally follow it but I'm sure FEELINGS. A lot of tangent going off with secondary characters, as this time period's romances liked to do and it made the pace slow down for me as I didn't care a lot about some of them. 

I did like how they developed their friendship first, I wasn't a fan of how the first time they have sex the MMC was delirious from almost dying from an old war wound (these MMC's can get it UP), and was a little head tilt that the villains of the piece got their own HEA.

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