The title is a crack-up, for the giant Hugh is The Unknown Ajax. It’s a lovely, funny romance that shows you just can’t judge a book by its cover. Coming from outside, Hugo realizes that young Richmond is ripe for scandal so when Richmond does stagger into the kitchens, Hugo is ready to take charge. Hugo’s courtship of Anthea is too funny with an interesting twist on how to approach an unwilling female. Nor does he hop to it when his Grandfather demands his presence, which sets the servants and family a’tremble. It doesn’t take Hugo long to play up to his family’s expectations using a broad Yorkshire accent to make everyone’s day. When all six-foot-four-inches of Major Hugh Darracott steps across the threshold, the family is stunned by that lumbering Ajax and automatically assumes he is as stupid as he is big. Well, he can’t have some backwoods country bumpkin step into his shoes, so young Hugo Darracott is “invited” to Darracott Place to be schooled and married off to his cousin. Unfortunately, he can’t write his grandson out of the inheritance and since his firstborn and that son’s heir drowned, the weaver’s brat is in line when milord kicks the bucket. When his second son off and marries the daughter of a weaver, Darracott wrote that son out of his will.

Other books by this author which I have reviewed include These Old Shades, Bath Tangle, Lady of Quality, The Black Moth, Venetia, The Spanish Bride, Simon the Coldheart, Beauvallet, A Civil Contract, Regency Buck, An Infamous Army, Frederica, Black Sheep, Sprig MuslinĪ Regency romance through which you can’t help but laugh when Lord Darracott meets his heir for the first time. Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Audibles. Historical romance in a paperback edition and has 352 pages.

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