The blurb of When a Rogue Meets His Match calls this union a “marriage of convenience.” This is misleading: it is a marriage that is forced on Messalina and Messalina only.
When they arrive in London, Messalina learns that she is to marry Mr. Gideon Hawthorne, to collect his niece from the countryside and bring her back to London. The Duke of Windemere sends his head lackey in matters of Evil, the low-born Mr. The premise of When a Rogue Meets His Match is as follows: Messalina Greycourt is an intelligent, beautiful aristocrat with an evil uncle, the Duke of Windemere. This was an incredibly disappointing read for me, and I will do my best to articulate why, even though my primary reaction is just wordless angry yelling. Everything after that felt like too little, too late in terms of trying to earn any kind of HEA. About three-quarters of the way in, I started to wonder what, exactly, the intended message of this book was, because it was verging in a startlingly uncomfortable way on emotional abuse apologia.
Theme: Class Differences, Enemies to LoversĪbout a quarter of the way into When a Rogue Meets His Match, I realized the book was probably not going to be a particularly successful villain redemption or enemies-to-lovers romance.
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