There's some contrivance about how Henrietta and Simon meet and an issue with Henrietta herself - she's been told she can't have children (therefore, no marital relations) due to a congenital hip deformity. Simon is the now-widowed-and-pregnant Esme's nephew by marriage if the baby she's carrying turns out to be Rawlings's son, Simon is disinherited (since he has a fortune, it's not a huge deal but the title would have been nice). So you'd think that the next novel would give the A-plot to Esme or Helene, right? Nope, we get an all new heroine, Lady Henrietta McClellan, and hero, Simon Darby in Fool for Love.
The transitions in the last few chapters were pretty shaky. The cute and funny bits that make Eloisa James novels got a bit lost in the multiple plotlines. And then everyone starts to try and reconcile and stuff really gets all crazy-pants. Gina uncovers a secret about her past, the prudish Sebastian constantly picks on Esme for her outrageous lifestyle (even though he secretly wants in her knickers), there's a bit about thieving from a sculpture, a reading from Shakespeare that gets everyone all hot and bothered, and another character, Helene, the Countess of Godwin, who is also estranged from her husband. There are sooo many plotlines in this book. Meanwhile, Gina's friend Esme decides that it's time she and her aimiable-but-infatuated-with-his-mistress husband to try for an heir whilst another friend, Carola, starts to reconcile with her estranged husband Tuppy (Tuppy?). At a house party - and it's one of those house parties where is seems no one sleeps in their own bed - Cam shows up, hunks of pink marble in tow, to throw a wrench in those plans. She finds a suitor - Sebastian Bonnington - and decides that she ought to have her marriage annulled so she can marry the very proper and very present marquess.
Gina is now all grown up and impatient to actually be a wife. She was married to Cam when she was eleven (illegal) and the groom (eighteen) promptly decamped to Greece to be a sculptor. The first book, Duchess in Love, introduces us to Ambrogina (Gina), the Duchess of Girton. Back to Eloisa James and an earlier series: her Duchess Quartet.
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