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After flowing through How to Seduce a Duke, I immediately picked up book two in Kathryn Caskie's Royle Sisters trilogy, How to Engage an Earl. I mentioned this is my previous review, but after doing some research into Kathryn's backlist I found she passed away in 2017. If you fall in love with her books like I have so far, I just wanted you to be aware. Also, this has a stepback as well, but it's a wrap-around. Check out the layout of the full cover! Such a fun way to do a stepback! Update: I applied this to the prompt of series to continue for the 3rd board of Summer of Swoon.
Here we focus on middle sister Anne. She has been tasked to sneak into the new Earl MacLean's bedchamber to search for some letters that would help prove their parentage. However, the empty bedchamber is occupied by Laird, the new earl. He scares her, she screams and all of the ball ends up outside his bedchamber door as he keeps her from falling. So begins their fake engagement, Anne using the time to search his estates for the hidden letters and Laird to help restore his reputation from his younger rakehell days.
I really enjoyed this book. I think I liked book one a little bit more, but I loved the connection between Laird and Anne. I felt like they connected quicker than Mary and Rogan, but they were also able to get away to his country seat for some forced proximity. I wasn't as into the mystery of their parentage here and it felt not quite as fleshed out. That didn't bother me though, since the point is the romance. I also enjoyed that Anne really wasn't fond of being the center of attention and was fairly shy, at least compared to her sisters.
One thing I do want to mention, is the meet cutes. The one where Mary pretends to be a statue in How to Seduce a Duke was so fun, and I loved this one too. Anne is known to be able to blend and seem invisible. She and Elizabeth goad each other into a challenge for her to steal glasses of punch from people as she weaves through the ballroom. Laird had been relaxing and hiding out against the wall and was surprised when Anne left standing by the wall, having been next to him the entire time. He then watches as she steals the glasses from people and winds his way to her. He plays up being distracted and draws her attention to steal his glass. Of course he was watching her the entire time and catches her when she tries for his glass. In the end she does steal it from him and it becomes a cute thing between them throughout the book. I just really loved the uniqueness and humor of both meet cutes.
I'm super excited to get to the last book in the series, How to Propose to a Prince. I'm super intrigued to learn more about Elizabeth and her psychic dreams. Also what her meet cute will be. I'm definitely going to continue going through Kathryn Caskie's backlist. I would've read this in one sitting as well outside of starting it so late at night. Such a fun and unique historical! I always love the ones that have mysteries, but it's not someone's death or dangerous in that way. So good!
Have you read How to Engage an Earl?
Bookishly Yours,
Stasi🍎
STATISTICS: How to Engage an Earl, Kathryn Caskie, 5-stars, 1 day, paperback, 352 pages, published in 2007
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