Gertrude is fantastic she is a flawed woman and has been underestimated by her family most of her life. I completely enjoyed Stephen and all his shenanigans adjusting to his new life back with his father. I loved the struggles Edwin had coming to terms with his growing feelings for Gertrude and finding that the daughter was nothing like the father and maybe had more reason than even he did to hate the man that sired her. She doesn’t blame him really since her father was the source of the fire that killed Edwin’s wife and baby all those years ago. Gertrude is his sister but has been like a mother to him his entire life and in a swell of determination and nerve has decided she will stay with Stephen until he is settled into his new life, even if she is despised by the father. Good thing Edwin can be a patient man even if it tears him up inside to try to get to know the boy he thought dead. He is about to go home to the father he can’t remember and learn how to become an aristocrat he is not exactly happy about it. Stephen grew up in the streets he is a rough and tumble boy, quick with a knife and slight of hand. But he’s found his son years later, living with a crime family gone respectable. Lord Edwin lost his wife and unborn child to a fire years ago he assumed his little boy also perished in said fire.

What a fun sort of enemies to lover’s tale. That is completely true of The Bluestocking, the fourth book in the Wicked Wallflowers series. The best thing about Historical Romance novels is you can usually jump into any book in a series with absolutely no trouble. Is it possible that the woman he loathed may be the only person who can heal his broken soul? With every moment he shares with the tenderhearted Gertrude, Edwin’s anger softens into admiration…and more. But when Gertrude forces her way into the household and stubbornly insists that she remain as Stephen’s governess, Edwin believes he may have found someone madder than himself. And not one of them will ever see the boy again. Still haunted by a deadly tragedy that left him publicly despised, Lord Edwin holds only hatred for the Killorans-the people he believes kidnapped his son. Her adopted brother, Stephen, has just been snatched back by his true father, and she’ll be damned if she relinquishes the boy to the man reviled throughout London as the Mad Marquess. She may seem as vulnerable as a kitten, but given the chance, she can be as fierce as a tiger. Gertrude, the eldest Killoran sister, has spent a lifetime being underestimated-especially by her own family. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble

The Bluestocking by Christi Caldwell