Honorable Rosalind's Heart by Bridget Barton

I rather enjoyed the sparring between the Duke and Rosalind. Of course, all that anger had to turn into passion. Rosalind must find the courage to defy her parents and go with heart. This is where a more mature female does not lack, that Rosalind does. She is just eighteen and still clings to her parents authority. My problem with the book, the duke could have demanded Rosalind's hand and it would have overrode anything that Lord Slyther had done. But the Duke begs Rosalind to tell her parents, and won't have her until she does. Duke gives credit to a naïve teenage girl, especially in a day and age where men think they ruled the world and women were made to stay home and be ornaments. Well, enough of the preaching. I liked this book and the plot and storyline were well written with the above mentioned flaws. Rosalind was a confused girl, who did not want to except her fate. The Duke was brash and sometimes very abrasive. It did not seem he understood how society worked and women have no choice. Lord Slyther, the name says it all. The parent were more concerned with themselves than their daughters welfare. It seemed the only person who was not self serving was Rosalind and she spent most of this book in fear of the future. This book says a lot about the vaguaries of society, and most aristocrats who ran England were self absorbed.