One Night for Seduction

A dare leading to love

I’m beginning to be a great fan of Mrs Erica Ridley, I have preordered, since I discovered her work last year, any new released book.
And this first in a series is an other big surprise, she crafted a wonderful story about two awesome characters around true historical facts.
As a French, I had to do some researches too and this is not an easy task, I can’t even understand half of the different wording.
Even if the story began with a wager, soon it was relegated in the background, something of few importance. The Duke Of Colehaven or Cole accepted a dare thinking it was impossible for a woman to remain unmarried or to do not want to marry.
Until he saw past her act of dissimulation, disguising herself to blend with her environment in and outside a ballroom. Then she intrigued him so much, she entranced him.
Diana Middleton is like the goddess she was named after, a fighter, she knows what she wants and she is aiming to win. Even if it means denying what every normal woman would expect, marriage. But she does not see, with right, how could she pursue her work by becoming someone property. So her encounter with Cole put her off balance, around him she feels things she had herself renounced to.
Their tale is not about the wager, it was just a means to an end to make them meet. Two persons with similar dreams and a difficult past. Cole is the unexpected poor fellow who inherited a dukedom and by the way try to improve the life of others thanks to his status. Diana has a mind for mathematics and she wants to help the less fortunates to not be cheated of their harshly earned coins.
I do loved to see them banter, bicker and hit each other’s strong opinions because they were so very similar in their differences. It was to them to find a way to bridge their discrepancies to make them a force.
A big fat 5 stars for this wondrous story.