Review: The Mysterious Miss M. by Diane Gaston

Title: The Mysterious Miss M
Author: Diane Gaston
Genre: historical romance
Grade: DNF
Synopsis: “The Mysterious Miss M is a living male fantasy - alluring, sensual, masked. But
when Lord Devlin Steele finds himself responsible for her - and her child - he comes
to know the real Maddy: the loving, passionate woman who drives away the nightmares
of the Waterloo battlefield.
But this aristocratic soldier can’t support his new family. He’ll only inherit his
fortune on marriage to a suitable lady - and Maddy is far from suitable. With the
dangers of London’s underworld closing in, how can he protect the woman he has come
to love?”

My Thoughts: I wanted to like this. I really did. But I thought the heroine was a twit for a long time in the first three chapters of the book, and I just didn’t buy her angst. Devlin, the hero, was nice enough, and I probably would have loved him if I’d met him under better circumstances, maybe even enough to keep reading. Unfortunately, what with Maddy not ringing especially true for me and the fact that I kind of glutted myself on regencies just now, I think I’d better put it aside for a different reading mood.