Ana Maria and the Fox

RATING: 4 Stars (★★★★)

SPICE LEVEL: 2 Spicy Peppers (🌶🌶)

⁠DISCLOSURE: I received a free copy from the author to run a Mini Traveling ARC.

Author: Liana De La Rosa
Publisher: Berkley

Tropes:⁠
↠ Marriage of Convenience
↠ Fish Out of Water

3.5 rounded up to 4 stars. This was a fun read, but I think the pacing of the book was off. This book wasn’t as strong because it spent too much time focusing on establishing the family and their connection versus the romance, so I wasn’t very attached to the couple.

Nevertheless, I loved meeting the sisters in this book, and I plan to read each book in the series. I can already tell I’m going to be obsessed with the next two books, though. And I still recommend giving this book a try. I think we have a start of a very good historical romance series!

Also, if you are a fan of a slow burn this book definitely has aspects of that.

A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season.

Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna family. So when Ana María is secretly sent to London with her sisters to seek refuge from the French occupation of Mexico, she experiences her first taste of freedom far from the judgmental eyes of her domineering father. If only she could ignore the piercing looks she receives across ballroom floors from the austere Mr. Fox.

Gideon Fox elevated himself from the London gutters by chasing his burning desire for more: more opportunities, more choices. For everyone. Now, as a member of Parliament, Gideon is on the cusp of securing the votes he needs to put forth a measure to abolish the Atlantic slave trade once and for all--a cause that is close to his heart as the grandson of a formerly enslaved woman. The charmingly vexing Ana María is a distraction he must ignore.

But when Ana María finds herself in the crosshairs of a nefarious nobleman with his own political agenda, Gideon knows he must offer his hand as protection . . . but will this Mexican heiress win his heart as well?

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