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It’s a testament to how much I love Sarah MacLean that I was SO excited for Malcolm and Sera’s story!!! Second chance romance is my least favorite trope, but I could not wait to see the resolution to the marriage in crisis we got a peek of in book one. I knew she would do their story justice in The Day of the Duchess, and I was right! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Three years after disappearing from English society, Sera returns demanding a divorce. Malcolm agrees, on the condition that she select his next wife — putting a ticking clock on his plan to win her back. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Alternating chapters between the past and the present, we see everything from these characters’ instant attraction to their miscommunications to their attempts to build a new future for themselves. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Though I didn’t mind reading each series backwards. (I got to hang out with Caleb Calhoun at The Singing Sparrow again!) I really would start with Scandal and Scoundrel before reading The Bareknuckle Bastards and Hell’s Belles. There’s a great progression of events and characters. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Some of my favorite moments: -dancing together, but not at the ball (a trope I need more of in my life) -Talbot sisters in a carriage -traveling beneath the lake ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ TW: stillbirth, mention of infidelity, sexual content ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ID: I’m holding a kindle displaying the ebook cover of The Day of the Duchess via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Ca2OFw_LERr/