Book Blurb:
Emily
At nineteen, Lady Emily Stanton is considered on the shelf. She doesn’t care a whit about society’s rules, though. She’s too busy being curious about her brother’s best friend…and how the maids whisper about him ‘bringing them over.’ Surely, he’ll explain, as he’s always been willing to indulge her.
Nate
Blacksmith Nate “Folly” Follett is used to the whims of the Ton, but he doesn’t trust them. However, his side business crafting intimate toys for them is exceedingly lucrative. Recently, he’s added more intricate scenarios called dilemmas. When his friend’s baby sister, now a grown and beautiful woman, appears in his forge to ask questions he can’t answer, he has a dilemma of his own—how to resist the tenacious and tempting debutante.
Her family treats her like a child. He makes her feel like a woman.
Tropes:
*Indie Author ARC *Historical Romance *Blacksmith MMC *Lady FMC *Age gap
*Brother's best friend *class difference *forbidden romance *Long term crush/pining
*secret side business *Spice *BDSM *temptation *Green flag MMC
Thoughts:
Lady Emily Stanton is the younger sister of an Earl her mother and brother want her to marry well, a member of the Ton and have been taking her to all the right parties so she can be introduced to all of the eligible males... but she doesn't want any of them if she can't be with the one man she has loved for ages (her older brother's best friend) she would rather stay single.
Nate "Folly" Follett is a blacksmith while he is good at his job the real money he makes comes from a secret side business where he and his business partner share new toys for adult situations they sell these to the wealthy members of the ton at parties thrown by trusted friends.
While Folly has mostly been focused on gaining enough money to send to his parents so they can retire in comfort, lately he has seen his friends Luke and Nate settle down and it would be nice if he had someone too.
Emily through a series of actions finds out about Nate's side business, she is tired of being treated like a child all the while being shoved on the marriage mart she would like more say in her life and she is interested in learning more and without telling her family she knows what's going on requests to visit Nate at the forge with her maid.
At first Nate is concerned about how he will go about his work with his best friends little sister hanging around... but soon enough he is seeing her in a new way, she's not little anymore in fact she's a beautiful woman... one he is finding harder and harder to resist, she is a lady and deserves to be with a titled member of society, he is just a blacksmith.
It did take me a bit to get into this story as Emily came off as young and immature through some of the book pouting and complaining of boredom, but she did have some growth through the book and became a good partner to Nate.
This was different from my usual types of historical romance reads as it involved discussions of BDSM type adult activities, it did at times feel like the story was over explaining the devices or contraptions (they were called dilemma's in the book) when I would have liked for more of our couple getting closer together, but they have been friends for years so they were already close... they were just now growing closer in a new way as their relationship was changing.
I liked that Emily was taking steps to be more independant and understood that if she was to be with Folly (like she dreamed about) that her life as she knew it as a wealthy lady might change quite drastically and was learning how to cook, clean and do more things to take care of her own needs.
Nate... older, handsome, hard working, and so sweet he was the complete package but was always selling himself short because he wasn't a member of the Ton. Green flag MMC at its finest, Loved him!
I also loved Emily's family they were caring and supportive.
I enjoyed this book, it was different but in a good way and I plan to read the rest of the series at some point thank you to the author for gifting me this ARC copy.
Have you read this one? What did you think?
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