Earl Grafton and the Traitor

Best thing about the book is the cover. I was looking for an E title for a challenge and came across this cute cover, deciding to try it out. Ugh. What a disaster of editing and of “manners.” The characters are hung up on imaginary social misdemeanors while at the same time committing nearly every misdemeanor in the social book of the early 1800s. They bicker like gutter children and the earl acts like he wasn't trained his whole life to be an earl. Oh, and the obligatory anachronistic “it's beneath the dignity of the poor to sentence them for stealing food.” Oh bother.

Hopefully the author decides to get a proper education on Regency life at some point (at least I assume it's supposed to be Regency as no year is stated and yet the War of 1812 doesn't appear to have taken place yet?), and invests in a better editor for her works.