The Best Intentions (Book 1, The Huntresses)

Gillian Phelps has worked hard to keep her reputation intact, and her benefactress has too, ensuring she will be able to have a season with hopes of receiving a much-needed marriage proposal. Scott Sarvol has inherited a mountain of debt from an uncle who seems to have set him up for failure. When Scott and Gillian find themselves at a house party together Scott ends up being the only one who can help Gillian in a moment of crisis. As they work together to save her benefactress’ ailing health, they begin to find a friendship and a romance that can never be. Gillian must marry someone with holdings and Scott needs a wealthy heiress.

What starts in a typical fashion with a house party turns into a wonderful story of star-crossed love. Gillian and Scott start not even as friends with neither trusting the other. But as they learn to rely on each other and develop a friendship and trust the tender beginnings of a romance are lit. Their friendship soon grows to a romance and those tender feelings become an inferno that cannot be ignored but must be banked and extinguished because they each must seek a spouse with money. Gillian and her huntress friends are strong capable heroines who must fit into societies expectations of women and fight with the means they are allowed. A masterfully woven tale of an impossible love match historical romance fans won’t want to miss. The second book in this series can’t come soon enough.

Cara Cieslak