The story: Lord Vere pretends to be an idiot for years in order to work for British intelligence. It investigates a suspected traffic and scheming to get invited home with others in his absence. Elissandre, for its part, welcomes the whole company with the hope to get married to escape her uncle torturer. She can not run away because it can not bring himself to abandon his aunt. Begins a game of cat and mouse between the two, where everyone has everything to lose or win.
I'm not an expert romantic novels, but I must confess that, for me, it is part of the top basket. The story is exciting, full of twists, the characters are tormented by their past, subplots bring spice and thickness to the history and the novelist was able to provide to its history of sometimes very funny buttons, sometimes loaded emotion. Read and reread