If You Give a Girl a Viscount

Starred review from November 1, 2011
Daisy Montgomery needs money, not a man. Which is why she wrote to her godmother, Lady Pinckney, hoping that she would rush to Scotland (with trunkloads of money if at all possible) and rescue Daisy from the clutches of her evil stepmother and her two demanding stepsisters. Instead, Lady Pinckney sends her grandson Charles Thorpe, Viscount Lumley, in her place. Unfortunately, due to his being cut off from the family fortune and having wagered a rather hasty bet with his friends that he could survive the trip north without a penny, Charles isn't going to be of any help to Daisy and her grand plan to restore her family home to its former glory. Especially once Charles takes it upon himself to announce their engagement without checking with Daisy to see if she even wants to marry him. In the concluding volume to her irresistibly effervescent Impossible Bachelor's series, Kramer spins her own clever take on the classic Cinderella tale, and the result is a fanciful fairy-tale romance that is pure frothy fun.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)