Intelligent and unconventional Meg Barratt is an anomaly within English society. Marriage and children are not on her agenda. Only her friendship with a duchess and her impeccable breeding prevent society from ostracizing her as she engages in an eccentric lifestyle. She never flaunts her lovers or her desire for adventure. That changes when fate places Meg aboard a privateer ship engaged in a dangerous mission.

Cosimo, a ruthless privateer and assassin, accepts the mistake that has given him the wrong woman for his mission. Unable to rectify it, Cosimo undertakes a seduction to manipulate Meg into accepting a partnership with him. Danger excites him and he feels a kindred spirit resides within Meg. Cosimo uses cold logic and has no emotional attachments, but Meg inspires an addiction that could become dangerous.

Always attracted to unsuitable men, Meg considers rejecting her desire for Cosimo; however, he offers her the adventure of a lifetime. Unable to resist the danger, she accepts, not realizing she's entered into a treacherous plot that will test her scruples and cause her to fall madly in love with a thoroughly unsuitable man.

Jane Feather takes two strong, mature characters and drops them in a time of history fraught with deceit and intrigue. Cosimo and Meg's sensual relationship builds into a loving one that changes them. ALMOST A LADY is a guaranteed great read.