Diamond in the Rough

 (American Heiresses) 

Paperback – September 3, 2019

by  Jen Turano  (Author)

To save her family from financial ruin, Miss Poppy Garrison accepts an unusual proposition to participate in the New York social season in exchange for her grandmother settling a family loan that has unexpectedly come due. Ill-equipped to handle the intricacies of mingling within the New York Four Hundred, Poppy becomes embroiled in one hilarious fiasco after another, doomed to suffer a grand societal failure instead of being deemed the diamond of the first water her grandmother longs for her to become.

Reginald Blackburn, second son of a duke, has been forced to travel to America to help his cousin, Charles Wynn, Earl of Lonsdale, find an American heiress to wed in order to shore up his family estate that is in desperate need of funds. Reginald himself has no interest in finding an heiress to marry, but when Poppy's grandmother asks him to give etiquette lessons to Poppy, he swiftly discovers he may be in for much more than he bargained for.

My thoughts: diamond in the roof is the second book I have read by this author and I 

loved it so much more than the first book I read by her. There is some strange wordage 

which I am going to assume was in voig back in the day when this book is set but I don't 

know. The heroin is feisty to hero is British and v brooding and there are a host of other 

lovable characters. It was interesting watching the debut of all the Rich Young girls with

 they're big fortunes looking to buy a husband and if he's titled from Great Britain didn't

 even better because who doesn't want to marry a title person. If you like regencies in a 

book about the rich 400 in New York you are absolutely love diamond in the rough. This 

book has been out for a while since you should be able to find it easily. I highly recommend 

it if you like historical romances.I was going to copy free and all opinions are my own