No Good Duke Goes Unpunished / Sarah MacLean / 382 pages

Romance set in the early 19th century in London.  While all romance novels are totally love/hate relationships in which the characters (buff & beautiful) are strangely attracted to each other but they don't know it (but everyone else does) until the end of the book when they fall deeply and hotly in love, you wonder how the author will pull it off this time.  It is truly a feat to drag out a relationship for 300+ pages until that one scene where they look deeply into each others eyes and confess their love and lust.   I think I read this one because it was a Library Reads selection.  There are 2 other books in the Rule of Scoundrels and 1 more on the way.