Lady Catherine Mabry finds herself in a desperate situation. This laughable premise is one of the main reasons I struggled to get into the book. As a result, London society shuns him and labels him a thief and murderer, which technically he is. He trains to be the earl, but never believes it and neither does anyone else other than the man who claims to be his grandfather. Despite this, he then takes Luke and his band of Oliver Twist like urchins to rear. Before the trial, the current Earl of Claybourne identifies the murderer as his long lost grandson, Lucian. Years earlier street ruffians attacked and killed the heir to Claybourne and later the next heir is murdered and the suspect arrested. Lucian Langdon, referred to as the Devil Earl by London’s aristocracy, may be the Earl of Claybourne, or he may not. While the plot deals with the meaty issues of spousal abuse and childhood poverty and crime, the characters were uninspiring and the situations too fantastic. Saying that, I must add that the last third of the story saved it from a much lower grade. This is, sadly, another one of those books I forced myself to read.
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