Christi Caldwell

Christi Caldwell, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Wicked Wallflowers series, combs London's underground and finds romance and danger for a missing lord and the lady who loves him. To solve a mystery that's become the talk of the ton, no clues run too deep for willful reporter Verity Lovelace. Not even in the sewers of London. That's precisely where she finds happily self-sufficient scavenger Malcom North, lost heir to the Earl of Maxwell. Now that Verity's made him front-page news, what will he make of her? Kidnapped as a child, with no memories of his well-heeled past, Malcom prefers the grimy spoils of the culverts to the gilded riches of society. Damn the feisty beauty who exposed the contented tosher to a parade of fortune-hunting matchmakers. How to keep them at bay? Verity must pretend to be his wife. She owes him. The intimacy of this necessary arrangement--Verity and Malcom thrust together in close quarters--soon sparks an irresistible heat. But when the charade ends, the danger begins. Will love be enough to protect them from a treacherous plot devised to ruin them?

In Bed with the Earl

Shaana Juntunen Cooper

I hate everyone but you trope. 
I liked that both hero and heroine are hard working.
I could actually see this as a BBC Masterpiece series. Starting out with the young lives of our hero and heroine and all the things thrown at them at such a young age. And eventually leading to the main events of this book.

danielle bush

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           I received this book from netgalley in exchange for an honest review. 
This review contains spoilers.


I have read a couple of books by Christy Caldwell, and really enjoyed them. This one however wan't my favorite. I really loved Malcolm. He was the son of an earl, who when his parents died was taken and made to live on the streets. He grew up being a Tosher, which from what i can gather is a person that looks for things in the sewers of London. He grew up hard, but still managed to make money, take in and protect other Toshers that have either grown to old, so be too injured to continue their jobs. 
Verity however I just didn't really like. That might be more of a me problem though as i am not the biggest fan of when one of the main characters works at a newspaper.
I just didn't like Verity as a person, even knowing that a lot of the things she did was to keep a roof over her and her sisters head. She really likes being a reporter and I just didn't like the decisions she made throughout the whole story. I did like her a little more, closer to the end of the story when her and Malcolm start spending a lot of time together after they start pretending to be married.
Verity is about to loose her job as a journalist, she has one week to find Malcolm and write a story about the Lost Earl. It just seems like every decision she makes is solely for the sake of the story and in the process makes a lot of mistakes that just made me mad for Malcolm. Then at one point when she is actually fired from the paper, and after she goes to Malcolm to ask for his help. He tells her No. So Verity decides that since he has a bunch of empty houses she will just take her sister, and one servant and go live in one without telling anybody..
However it just so happens that Malcolm sent two of his people to that exact house for retirement, and when Verity is discovered some how it comes out that Malcolm and Verily are married? Like could she make the situation any worse.. 
I did like the beginning and ending alot better than the middle portions where Verity just kept making a fool of herself. 
If you like Christy Caldwell, and when one of the main characters are reporters you might like this one. However I have discovered reporters in books are something Im just not a fan of.. I gave it 3 starts here, but its really more like 3.5..

In Bed with the Earl

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