For 15 years, Danny has been living with a group of orphan thieves, masquerading as a boy, but now, thanks to one highborn rogue, she has lost the only home she's ever known. Determined to make Jeremy Malory pay for trapping her into stealing back his friend's family heirlooms, Danny coerces Jeremy into giving her a respectable job as his new upstairs maid. Jeremy would rather that she become his mistress, but all he can convince her to do is pretend to be his new romantic interest in order to save him from a marriage-minded heiress. While Jeremy and Danny indulge in their little game of seduction, Danny is recognized by the man who killed her parents and thought he had also done away with their young daughter. Best-selling Lindsey returns to her Malory family series after a 13-year hiatus with a terrific tale about a wickedly seductive hero and a wonderfully unconventional heroine, infusing this fairy-tale-like love story with a dash of danger in a successful bid to please readers who like witty and sinfully sensual Regency romances.

I stayed up til 5am to finish this book because I couldn't put it down. It wasn't THAT great, it was just so interesting that I wanted to finish it in one sitting. The only problem I had was that the hero, Jeremy Malory, kept trying to get under Danny's skirts all throughout the book. Its common for the hero to want to bed the heroine, but this was ridiculous. If he what he said and did occurred in the present, he'd be slapped with a sexual harrassment suit so fast he wouldn't have known what hit him.

Aside from that, the book was a lot of fun to read. Readers get to see the world from the point of view of a street urchin and then a servant. I loved the whole Pygmalion theme. There were also some subplots that kept me turning pages all night.

Marichu's rating: 4.25/5 stars