Nowhere Near Respectable / Mary Joe Putney / R. T. Reviewer's Choice Award / 390 pages

Lady Kiri Lawford is the daughter of an English duke and an Indian princess.  Running away to escape betrothal to an Englishman whose mother looks down on Kiri's heritage, she is captured by smugglers and rescued by Damien Mackenzie, owner of a fashionable gambling hall.  Kiri is a perfumist and can recognize people by their smell.  Faking his death during an attempted kidnapping of Princess Charlotte on one of his masquerade nights, Mackenzie and Kiri seek to find the kidnappers.  Enjoyable and humorous read.