Doctor Garrett Gibson is the only female physician in England, trained in France and licenced before they got around to changing the rules so other women couldn’t follow her example. She has a good job, working as a staff physician at Winterborne’s department store. She also does pro bono work in the poorer parts of town, and it’s on her way home from one of these jobs that she finds herself accosted by three thugs. While she’s been trained in self defence, things start take a turn for the serious until Ethan Ransom shows up to lend a hand. The former Scotland Yard detective has been keeping an eye on Garrett, worried that someone would indeed attack her and overwhelm her. He clams her defencive moves are far too mannered, and offers to teach her to fight dirty, so she can properly defend herself in future.
Ethan Ransom has been attracted to the intelligent Dr. Gibson for months, but working in a secret branch of the government, he can’t allow himself to get attached to anyone – his job is too dangerous. Yet he can’t really stay away from her, and when he ends up in a near-death situation, Dr Gibson needs to use all of her skills to patch him back together again. Ethan also needs to swallow his resentment of his Ravenel relatives, so he and Garrett have somewhere to lay low while the people who want him dead are brought to justice.
Full review on my blog.
I couldn’t tell if this book was old school or outdated, or perhaps both. I do know that Kleypas is 0 for 4 with this series.