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Violence
Barely any
Minor violence
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate language
Sexual Content
A lot
Open-door sexual content — warm and moderately explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in Regency settings
Emotional Intensity
Some
The ethical weight of the con and the slow development of genuine feeling are the novel's psychological pleasure
What this book is about
Ash Cohen is a Jewish con man who approaches widow Lydia Reeve with a plan: she'll pretend to court his brother so her town will stop pressuring her to remarry. Lydia sees through the scheme immediately — and agrees anyway. Lerner's Regency romance is known for its rare Jewish hero, its warm treatment of outsider identity, and its genuine emotional depth.
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