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Steam Rating: 🍆🍆🍆/5

Thank you to Avon Books for gifting me a review copy of Waiting for a Scot Like You by Eva Leigh. This is the third in the Union of the Rakes series and while the last book left big shoes to fill this book has filled them and then some—you can check out my review of Would I Lie to the Duke here.

Both our leading lady, Beatrice, the Dowager Countess of Farris, and our sexy leading man, Major Duncan McCameron, were introduced in the last book and I had already fallen in love with them so was thrilled to learn they were getting their own book!

Beatrice is widowed and determined to live her life the way she wants now that she’s free of her boring and controlling husband. In fact, she’s on her way to an orgy—yep, you heard right, an orgy—and Major McCameron has been enlisted to escort her on her journey. The Major is an upright, law-abiding sort and has no time for shenanigans or delays to their journey, but Beatrice is all about wild adventures and trying new things these days and is determined to help the Major lighten up a bit.

This book has forced proximity, single bed, grump and sunshine, and basically all my favorite tropes rolled together. And, what makes it even more fun is that while these are regency romances, the whole series was inspired by various movies from the ‘80s. In particular, this one has lots of little nods to Ferris Bueler’s Day Off.

Eva Leigh is such a brilliant writer. One moment she has me tearing up and my heart aching for the characters, and the next minute I’m spitting tea out of my nose because a scene is riotously funny!

And steamy? Oh yes, this book is hot, hot, hot. Beatrice knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to ask for it!

You’re for sure going to want to pick this one up. Grab a copy from an independent bookstore via the button below.

Synopsis:

For a merry widow and a stoic major, it’s a bumpy road to love…

Adjusting to life in peacetime isn’t easy for Major Duncan McCameron. Escorting a lady on her journey north seems like the perfect chance to give him some much-needed purpose. That is, until he learns the woman in question is the beautiful, bold, reckless Lady Farris. She makes his head spin and being alone together will surely end in disaster.

Beatrice, the Dowager Countess of Farris, is finally free of a stifling marriage and she has no plans to shackle herself to any other man. Ready to live life to the fullest, she’s headed to a week-long bacchanal and the journey should be half the fun. Except she’s confined to a carriage with a young, rule-abiding, irritatingly handsome Scottish soldier who wouldn’t know a good time if it landed in his lap. But maybe a madcap escapade will loosen him up...

Between carriage crashes, secret barn dances, robbers, and an inn with only one bed, their initial tension dissolves into a passion that neither expected. But is there a future for an adventure-loving lady and a duty-bound soldier, or will their differences tear them apart?