A Gentleman's Gentleman
A Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Chef's Kiss, a groundbreaking trans Regency romance that's both delightfully witty and refreshingly iconoclastic.
“A Gentleman’s Gentleman is a thoroughly charming confection of a romance. If you’re looking for a tender, gentle slow burn, this is the book for you.” —Cat Sebastian, author of We Could Be So Good
The notoriously eccentric Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” and even more unusual habits: he prefers to live far from the prying eyes and ears of the ton, and would rather have the comfortable company of his childhood cook and his aged butler than the swarm of servants and hangers-on befitting a man of his station. But Christopher’s pleasant, if occasionally lonely life is upended when he receives word from his lawyers that, according to his late father’s will, he must find a wife by the end of the Season if he intends to keep his family’s fortune and the Eden estate. Christopher cannot imagine a worse fate: as he isn’t attracted to women, his chances of making a wife happy are slim. Furthermore, if his quest to marry has any hope of succeeding, he must move to London posthaste and acquire some more suitable staff.
Enter James Harding, Christopher’s new, distractingly handsome—if rigidly traditional—valet. After a rocky start, the two strike up a fragile friendship amid the throes of the London Season . . . a friendship that threatens to shatter under the looming shadow of Christopher’s impending nuptials—and the secrets both men are keeping. With its heady combination of dry wit, slow-burn romance, and a nuanced portrait of trans identity, A Gentleman’s Gentleman stands to transform the historical romance genre as we know it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lambda Award finalist Alexander (Triple Sec) delivers another extraordinary addition to the queer romance genre. This time, the story is set in Regency England and stars His Lordship Christopher William Fitzwilliams Winterthrope, the Right Honorable Earl of Eden, who is secretly trans ("a man of unusual make," as he puts it). Christopher, who has been successfully living as a man for many years, partly by avoiding the prying eyes of high society, must find a wife before his next birthday, per his father's will. To do so, he will have to go through a London season, and for his season to be successful, he'll need a valet. Enter James Harding—young, handsome, and endlessly intriguing. The ensuing slow-burning romance between the two men comes with plenty of surprises that land just on the right side of believable. Meanwhile, Christopher's awkward joviality combined with Harding's extremely proper comportment makes for a pairing that is laugh-out-loud funny, as well as devastatingly tender. This is an unadulterated delight.
