![]() ![]() ![]() The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy is the final book in The Smythe-Smith Quartet, which follow the shenanigans surrounding the yearly (terrible) musicales performed by the eligible ladies of the Smythe-Smith family. I also jumped at the chance to read and review her RITA-nominated novel from 2015. I devoured her entire back catalog over the past year and a half. Julia Quinn was one of the first authors people suggested I’d like and every last one of you wonderful recommenders were right. While I’ve always enjoyed romantic storylines (hey fellow fanfic readers: we read a lot of romance), I rarely read actual romance novels before 2014. When his proposal of marriage turns into a compromising position that forces the issue, she can’t help thinking that he’s hiding something. He flirts, he charms, he gives every impression of a man falling in love, but she can’t quite believe it’s all true. So when Richard Kenworthy demands an introduction, she is suspicious. With her pale hair and quiet, sly wit she tends to blend into the background, and she likes it that way. Iris Smythe–Smith is used to being underestimated. She’s the type of girl you don’t notice until the second-or third-look, but there’s something about her, something simmering under the surface, and he knows she’s the one. ![]() He knows he can’t be too picky, but when he sees Iris Smythe-Smith hiding behind her cello at her family’s infamous musicale, he thinks he might have struck gold. Sir Richard Kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride. ![]()
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