A review by peytonm
Deception by Amanda Quick

5.0

If you've ever read an Amanda Quick novel, this has a familiar hero and heroine dynamic: Olympia knows that Jared has a passionate nature and is wonderful while the rest of the world sees him as a coldblooded bore. Olympia is an academic sleuth who is decrypting an old diary with clues to a buried treasure, and Jared, a viscount, poses as a new tutor for her three boys (she adopted them after they'd had been shuffled around the family) in order to get close.

This books gets an extra star for nostalgia because I've been trying to suss it out from the rest of Amanda Quick's historical romances for so long! I remember reading this in high school, and the first scene of the hero saving the heroine from a gross dude in a library is seared into my brain. Also, I totally remember gasping out loud when the lover of his ex-fiance is revealed! Yay I'm so glad I finally got to reread this story!