In England in 1830, Venus Merriwell has given up on love at the spinsterly age of 22 after a few bad experiences, and she decides to focus on the orphans she teaches, and perhaps snare a man who is older and less interested in her body. However, she keeps running into young and handsome Galahad Sinclair, who is a cousin of one of her sisters' husbands. Venus and Galahad have never gotten along. Galahad came to England from New York City after a rough early life, deserted by his father. When his mother dies when he is still a child, his life is hard, but he makes the best of it, and now owns a few hotels and bars. He's set his sights upon expanding his business and buys three rowhouses that he plans to turn into a huge lounge by knocking down walls between the buildings. When he discovers that the buildings are directly next door to the rundown orphanage that Venus works at, he decides to mend his ways and work to be polite to Venus. Venus is not sure that she can really trust him. Who is the real Galahad? One reason Venus can't trust him is that her own father had been rather a cad himself.
This is book three in a trilogy about Venus and her sisters, which (of course!) I didn't realize until the end. However, the book stands alone well. But I might just want to go back and read the others.
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