FOREVER YOUR EARL is the first book by Eva Leigh in her new series Wicked Quills of London.

Eleanor Hawke is the owner and publisher of The Hawk's Eye. The newspaper office publishes the scandalous news of the Lords and Ladies of the ton. So when Daniel Balfour, the notorious Earl of Ashford, marches into her office and invites her to experience his illicit pursuits firsthand, Eleanor is stunned and excited about the opportunity. Daniel Balfour has his own reason and secret to invite Eleanor in his scandalous adventures to distract her from learning about his missing friend.

The first chapter of FOREVER YOUR EARL started interesting and seemed to be a story with a great plot and delightful banter between the hero and heroine. Daniel has been looking for his friend Jonathan, the heir of the duke, with Jonathan's sister for the past month. Daniel doesn't want anybody to learn about it and to prevent the huge scandal about the missing heir so he decides to distract Eleanor. After reading a few chapters, I wondered why he took her to the places she has not even heard about in the middle of the night, which didn't have anything to do with the plot. Plus, there was no way she could have found out about the missing heir by herself and her team.

I must say if I were a new reader to historical romance, this story would have been exciting with the heroine dressing up as a man and going to gambling halls, masquerades, or phaeton races. But for me it felt like I am reading the scenes I have read before in so many historical romances and it didn't have anything to do with the main plot of finding Jonathan.

I liked Eva Leigh's writing. It was witty with delightful banter and I would like to read more books by her, but FOREVER YOUR EARL was a slow-paced read and the plot was not thrilling for me.