When she's almost killed in a suspicious 'accident', Adrian hires an 'investigator' to find out who's after her. In the meantime, it looks like there's someone out there trying to harm Clarissa. So each tries to buy time in his/her own way - Adrian delaying the purchase of new spectacles for her and Clarissa hiding the fact that she's already purchased them - while working to make the other fall in love. She can't remain spectacles-less forever, can she? Adrian is sure she's going to run away screaming when she finally sees his 'horrible' scar, while Clarissa is afraid he's going to be disgusted by the sight of her in her 'ugly' spectacles. But as they start falling in love with each other, doubt arises. She also appreciates his company and the way she doesn't feel clumsy around him. He meets Clarissa in one of the ton's balls and, lucky for him, she can't see his face, his scar, or anything else for that matter.Įven though Clarissa's 'blindness' is very attractive to Adrian, he quickly grows to like her for who she is and enjoys spending time with her.

He's very self-conscious about the scar he has on his face and doesn't believe any woman will have him as husband because of it - silly, silly man! -, but he knows it's time he did his duty and found a wife, so here he is in London, enduring the Season and the marriage market. Okay, if she says so.Īdrian Montfort, the Earl of Mowbray, is back to London after a ten-year self-imposed exile in the country, where he's been 'hiding' from the ton since he came back wounded and scarred from the Peninsular War. Nonetheless, Lydia still refuses to allow Clarissa to wear spectacles, arguing that 'being clumsy is better than being ugly'. Clarissa is a pretty and wealthy lady, but her 'clumsiness' has sent most of her suitors away. Without being able to see anything but blurry colors and shapes, Clarissa has one graceless accident after another and is soon nicknamed 'Clumsy Clarissa' by the ton. Lydia is trying to get Clarissa married off this Season and believes no gentleman will look at Clarissa twice if she's wearing those ugly spectacles, but this silly 'scheme' isn't really working. Lady Clarissa Crambray is extremely nearsighted and 'blind as a bat' without her spectacles, but her stepmother Lydia has forbidden her to wear them - in fact, she has broken them and thrown them away to prevent Clarissa from disobeying her.

Now I'm wondering why I didn't pay attention to her sooner. My sister loves her books and had urged me to read one of them for ages, but I only caved in yesterday. This was my first book by Lynsay Sands and it was really good.

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