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Lady Olivia Fairchild, eldest daughter of a Duke, wants nothing more in life than adventure. Olivia’s tired of living a life of luxury and longs for adventure; specifically she longs to become a spy! Working in the Home Office just isn’t enough, she’s seen the plans for a new spy-training school and believes she should be accepted….. Sebastian Brooks is the newly appointed spymaster whose job it is to set up the school and turn out the first batch of new trainees. One, Sebastian does not believe a life of espionage is something a woman should be involved in, and two, he is determined to drive Olivia out of the program when he is forced by his superior to accept her into his training program. So let the games begin! *** I’m generally not a real stickler when an author chooses to stretch the conventions of a period a bit to give a dash of originality to their story. In TOO HOT FOR A SPY Ms. Wolf gave her heroine a good amount of autonomy, but so much so that it quite made this story a bit hard to digest. There are some things that could be overlooked in the Regency society, but a duke’s daughter who ‘works’ in the Home Office as a clerk, then goes off to “train” in a school for spies – I don’t think so! Especially when said Duke’s daughter is the oldest of several other daughters whose chances of making decent marriages would be severely hampered by their sister’s outlandish choice of careers! Now if said daughter were an unacknowledged illegitimate child it could happen, but it just was not a believable concept. Bottom line: Other than the stated reasons above concerning the implausible plot line, Ms. Wolf does score well in her dialogs, character development, pacing, romance and sensuality which made this an enjoyable read.
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TOO HOT FOR A SPY
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