Love Is in the Heir

I admit, when I read the premise for this story (the hero falls in love with a twin) I was a little worried that it wouldn't stand up well against the other three books in the Featherton sisters series. But it did! Hannah Chillton is a matchmaker who doesn't believe in love. She thinks its a matter of putting two people together and letting nature takes its course. Then she meets a handsome astromer while on the cliffs in Cornwall. She is attracted but it isn't until both of them are in Bath that she starts wondering if she has actually fallen in love with him. Or hate. Sometimes he is so sweet and passionate, then other times he makes her want to scream. The reader knows all along that he is a twin, the good twin, and his rakish brother is the other. Hannah doesn't know this. Griffin St. Albans is the more athletic of the twins. When his dying distant relative the Earl of Devonsfield loses his sons in an accident he comes to locate his heir, he instead finds twins and no one knows who was first born and in line to inherit. The earl makes them a secret deal. Whichever twin marries a woman of quality first, so the line continues, will inheirt. Both twins race off to Bath. Garnet, to win the earldom, and Griffin to seek out Miss Chillton, while studying the Bath comet that will soon be passing over Bath. This is story is both sensual and fun to read. The author managed to weave in several other romances into the story without taking away from Hannah and Griffins. The hilarious Featherton sisters have their hands full when Hannah turns the tables on them and begins to find matches for the old ladies. I loved this story. It is the perfect ending to a wonderful series. Lovers of romance with love this story.

The accident wiped out much of the Devonsfield extended family tree. Lord Devonsfield assigned his servant Pinkerton to find the new heir. Pinkerton locates the heir, but there is a problem. There are twins with no one knowing who the older brother is; their birth was difficult, the mother died and the father grieved. The Earl decides that the first one of the twins to marry a "lady" will inherit his earldom. The intellectual twin astronomer Griffin St. Albans meets Miss Hannah Chillton over an errant hat, a falcon and a cliff. Each is attracted to the other. Not long afterward in a coaching accident, the athletic twin Garnet also meets Hannah and realizes she is the one his sibling is half in love with. Being better with women, Garnet pretends to be Griffin to help foster his brother's cause with Hannah. As identities become muddled, Hannah feels fickle as one moment she thinks she loves the shy Mr. St. Albans and the next she wonders why she cannot abide the overly confident Mr. St. Albans. Any novel that contains the Featherton sisters (see RULES OF ENGAGEMENT and A LADIES GUIDE TO A RAKE) is going to be amusing, wacky, and fun as the elderly matchmakers turn the aristocracy upside down. The current tale is zany yet built off of a real event in 1822 with a genuine astronomer Miss Caroline Herschel that adds an anchor to the comet induced story. Still this entertaining historical belongs to a way out heroine and twins who change places to further the cause of one of them with the eccentric female protagonist. Readers will risk a bad heir day waiting in line for Kathryn Caskie's fine Regency.