Easily the best of Quinn's first trilogy, which isn't saying all that much, really. Could have been much better if she'd bothered to commit or do anything interesting with Henry's tomboyish, breeches-wearing ways instead of just sort of lukewarmly having her be insecure about her ability to perform femininity, especially since she didn't really start in on that heavily until AFTER Henry had already thoroughly proven her ability to perform femininity to the standard of the ton.

Then the final conflict between Henry and Dunford was very tacked-on and fairly contrived. It felt like she got 80% into the book, realized that the whole ward issue wasn't much of one and the hero and heroine were already in love, knew everything about each other, and were engaged so... quick gotta do something for the last 20%! Uh uh uh a tragic misunderstanding about infidelity and whether they really love each other sparked by Random Conniving Female YES GOOD!