As one might expect, that doesn’t particularly help the family dynamics. As they spend time together they find themselves drawn to one another and the banging commences. Giles or else he will inform her brother of her presence in that locale, and Hero fears her brother will refuse to allow her to continue to oversee the construction of the new Home so she agrees. Griffin finds her traveling there with only two footmen for protection and insists that she allow him to escort her while she is in St. Giles, one of the most dangerous places in all London. However, Hero is a patroness of the Home for Unfortunate Infants and Foundling Children in St.
Griffin and his brother are on very poor terms with one another and Hero is warned to stay away from the scoundrel by her family.
After Griffin hides and the other lady is fetched away by her husband, they verbally spar a bit and he calls her Lady Perfect in response to her admonitions against his behavior, at which point she calls him Lord Shameless. The gentleman in the room ends up being the brother of her fiance, Griffin Reading. Unfortunately for the couple, Hero noticed the lady’s husband headed toward the room, so she delicately interrupts them to try to prevent an incident which would lead to a duel. The book opens with her having entered a small room to adjust her wayward stocking at a ball, only to find the room occupied by a couple in flagrante delicto. Notorious Pleasures deals with Lady Hero Batten, the lovely, proper, and dutiful sister of the Duke of Wakefield, who is about to be engaged to Thomas Reading, the Marquess of Mandeville. I read the first book in this, the Maiden Lane series, but didn’t do a write up for it before starting book two and now it has sort of evaporated out of my head so I am just going to skip that one and go straight into Notorious Pleasures.
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