An Elegant Facade by Kristi Ann Hunter

Lady Georgina Hawthorne knows she needs to marry well.  She has prepared for years for the time she makes her debut with society.  She is ready to be the talk of the season and have her choice of who she will marry.  Deep down she is hiding a secret.  Everything she puts on is fake to hide a secret she wants no one to know.  Her desire to marry well, lines with up needing to keep her secret hidden.

Colin McCrae has no title, but has it powerful and has many connections with high society.  These connections get him invited to many different balls and he isn't accepted anywhere.  At one of these events he meets Lady Georgina.  While Lady Georgina's only care is about status and appearance for who she marries, Colin want to marry someone the complete opposite of her.  Lady Georgina finds ha hard time shaking off Colin and keeps meeting up with him everywhere.

As much as she wants to keep her secret hidden, Colin soon finds out here secret and why she is so insistent on marrying well.  I love the banter between Colin and Georgina and how she has "little Colin" running around in her head all of the time.

I loved diving into high society London in the early 1800s.  Ms, Hunter opened up society to us and the way it was.  How people fought for marrying well and turned away anyone that didn't meet their expectations.  I loved how Georgina was friendly with Lavinia, despite her stutter, and fought Lord Aschcombe to be friends with her.  (I never did like Lord Aschcombe!)  

I love the banter between Georgina and Colin and how Colin was able to get her to open up and see the real Georgina behind all what she was hiding.   Despite what she was expected to do, Georgina was followed her heart, she followed her true inner self.  She learned that God love her for the way she was and not the front she was trying to put on.

I do have to say the only thing I wish this book had was a translation of what some of the British society terms meant that were used.  

This book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications Inc.,  I was not required to write a positive review.  The opinions I have expressed are entirely my own.