Set in June of 1778 at Lindow Castle in Cheshire, England the house is celebrating the engagement of the eldest son of the Duke, North, to Diana Belfast and the return of the second oldest son, Alaric who has been gone for five years exploring the world and writing about his observations, using his last name of Wilde in the titles, such as Wilde Latitudes. In his absence, he has become something of a celebrity and an obsession to many of the young ladies, mainly due to a play put on about one of his adventures that was wildly inaccurate. His family thinks it's hilarious to a degree. Some of his teen siblings have had to put up with mishaps from others, though.
Someone who doesn't think it's hilarious, besides Alaric, is the proper Miss Wilomena "Willa" Everett Ffynche. She believes in keeping a private life and has no intention of being one of many. She also hasn't read any of his books. She prefers non-fiction books such as Pliny, not the fiction she is sure his books to be. She is prepared to meet Lord Wilde but quite unprepared to meet Alaric the man behind the facade. He is also intrigued to meet a woman who is not fawning at his feet.
Willa's best friend, Lavina Gray, with whom she was raised since the age of nine when her parents died, has been obsessed with Lord Wilde and has his picture plastered all over her room. But when she meets him she realizes he wasn't at all what she thought he'd be but decides he might make a fine friend instead. Parth Sterling, an orphan raised on the Duke's estate with his children has made a vast fortune for himself. While he and Willa hit it off great, he and Lavina fight like cats and dogs. It's quite interesting to watch the two of them go at it. At times more interesting than the main story.
At first, Willa feels as though she is being treated like a mountain that Alaric feels the need to conquer because she is a challenge, not because he truly cares for her. Then, of course, there's the matter of all of his adoring fans clamoring around him. Willa cannot consider a man for marriage that she could not have a private life with or one that was being chased by half the women in England. On top of that, she does not believe him when he says that he is done with exploring and plans to settle down at his estate.
But there's no denying what his kisses do to her and Alaric can be quite persuasive. And when an opportunity arises that involves them pretending to be engaged he takes advantage of it to do some more convincing. This was a good book and that had some unusual elements to it. It's not often you find a man giving a woman a skunk for a gift. Also, it's not often you encounter a scene of a man masturbating. But, a lovemaking scene would not be happening for a long time because Willa was a proper young woman and it was a creative way to get in a sex scene. This was a good start to a series that I eagerly await the next book for which should be about North and Diana if the ending is any indication and cannot come soon enough.
Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wilde-Love-Wildes-Lindow-Castle-ebook/dp/B01MYDK4ME/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513776862&sr=8-1&keywords=wilde+in+love
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