Aw, this is so sweet! And I loved the angst and touch of insecurity! I love me some misunderstandings, particularly ones that arise from eavesdropping. But I wish I had read this before [b:The Rogue's Wager|30237076|The Rogue's Wager (Sinful Brides, #1)|Christi Caldwell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1473117762l/30237076._SX50_.jpg|50699039], it would have made Robert's book even better. ( )

I love a book where the heroine is not the most beautiful or sought after girl in the room. This one is for the rest of us. For the smart, awkward girls; those bluestocking, wallflowers who are overlooked or even taunted by others. How could anyone like that ever hope to find love – never mind love with a soon to be Duke? What chance did Gemma Reed have?
Gemma’s one ace is the fact that her best friend, beautiful Beatrice is the sister to Lord Westfield. Gemma has “loved” him for all three of her unsuccessful seasons and this house party she was finally going to tell him how she feels. With her sister’s help, she finds out that Westfield is fishing and she makes her way down to talk to him. Unfortunately, she misses him but find his best friend Richard Jonas. The two don’t get along, yet when he kisses her they both feel something.
Even as Gemma is trying to make her feeling know to Westfield, those feeling are changing. She has finally met a man who sees her for who she is and likes her. Is there a chance for her, for them?
When two people are made for each other, they see what no one else can see. They understand each other like no one else can. Gemma and Richard have both stayed at the fringes of society but that’s where they found each other.
Once again, Christi Caldwell has created a wonderful story of learning to know yourself before you can really learn to love someone else. The characters are real – with flaws and problems. This is a quick read and well worth taking the time. Although this is the 4th book in the Lords of Honor Series, it stands alone and you do not need to read the other before this one (although if you liked this one you might want to go back and pick them up also.)
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So I am thrilled to be back reviewing another book in the Lords of Honor series by the amazing Christi Caldwell.

Miss Gemma Reed was deemed by her peers to be ugly and though Gemma she did not see herself as a raving beauty, she neither saw herself as so horribly unattractive as painted by the ton. And even though she had been over looked as "unworthy" Gemma is hoping that love may spark when she plans on confessing her true feeling for her best friends brother; Robert, The Marquess of Westfield.
But fate has someone else in mind...

Mr. Richard Jonas didn't care for for the ton, but instead care about his horses, his business and his friends. Which is why he was at his friend Robert, Marquess of Westfield house party. What he didn't expect though was Miss Gemma Reed and how after their first meeting, he couldn't get her out of his head.

And so we enter into this rough and tumble sort of courtship where Richard is trying to help her find her courage and all the while falling in love with her himself.

As normal Christi Caldwell writing is superb and her characters are easy to fall in love with, and by the end of the story you wish that you were apart of her world. I honestly can't say enough about how much I love all of the characters in this book! And I truly hope that Beatrice and her brother find beautiful love matches of their own.

I give Tempted by a Lady's Smile a very well deserved 5 stars!
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