Exquisite Author:Joan Overfield The acclaimed author of TIME'S TAPESTRY adds a touch of larceny to love as a society beauty resorts to burglary to save her good name... only to fall for the dashing marquis investigating the crime. — Rachel Manvers' unscrupulous uncle was selling her extraordinary sculptured copies of marble Roman heads as genuine antiquities -- and one had just... more » been acquired by the Marchioness of Stanton, mother of England's foremost authority on Roman antiquities. In desperation, Rachel broke into the Marchioness' home to replace the reproduction with the original before the deception was discovered. She barely escaped capture by Nicholas Woodward, the Marquis of Stanton himself, who was astonished to discover that the intruder was a woman! Now Rachel cannot escape the devastating Marquis -- on his undercover investigation of counterfeit antiquities that brings him close enough to save her life, ignite her passions, and risk a scandal that only marriage can resolve!« less
I would rate this book 4*s. If you like Mary Jo Putney you will like Joan Overfield. The difference is Joan has a great sense of humor. Parts of the book were very funny.