Ex-prostitute but newly retitled lady, Jane Seville is experiencing something she has never experienced before.  She is the center of attention and is being pursued by men just for the land and title that she will bring to them in marriage.  Refusing to consider any requests by the poppycocks that bring her inanimate gifts, Jane wants nothing more than to escape back into her old world.  When one more man interrupts her she is ready to give him a piece of her mind but she can’t.  Finding herself staring at a man unlike any she has seen before, Jane inadvertently insults him.  Asking his pardon, Jane agrees to accompany him to her holdings so that he might look and determine if he wants to purchase them from her.  She wants no part of something that caused her so much pain.  Traveling with Wynn is an eye opening experience.  Used to people staring at her because of her strumpet status, Jane despises that people are so hateful to Wynn. 

Wynn is used to people staring at him because of his albhus coloring.  When King Edred tells him that he should marry Lady Jane Seville, Wynn can’t help but feel certain solidarity with her for the attention she is grabbing.  In a gown better suited to a ragbag and with blazing colors to boot, Jane is getting her fair share of attention and not all of it positive.  Men who know her former occupation don’t have marriage in mind.  Wynn makes his way to Jane only to be mortified and slightly upset that she stares at him like all the rest have been staring at him his entire life.  Resigned to her not being able to love him, he sets out to prove that while she might not be love him, she will desire him and in that he can gain her lands and her title just like the King ordered.  He doesn’t expect to fall in love with her. 

Falling in love with Wynn is not something Jane plans on happening but it does anyway.  When she finds out the true nature of Wynn’s interest she is hurt beyond all measure.  It seems like the three fairy godmothers watching over her and Wynn have a lot of explaining and make up work to do to make things right before both Wynn and Jane lose their secret heart’s desires. 

Lady Strumpet was unlike what I thought it would be.  I didn’t read the blurb because I read the first installment of this series.  In fact, at first I was disappointed that the story did not come out the way I thought it would.  I knew Jane was the heroine, but I did not know about Wynn.  I figured a Dunmore brother would be the hero of this tale and so Wynn had to convince me that he was a worthy hero to this series.  He did so tenfold.  He was used to being made fun of and reviled his entire life.  When he was given one bit of happiness in the form of Jane and marriage I am so glad that he put aside his trepidations and decided that Jane was worth his love and attention.  Jane, while being a former prostitute, was very innocent to the ways of love.  I adored watching Wynn change her mind. 

All in all, Lady Strumpet by Gia Dawn is a worthy second installment of her Demons of Dunmore series.  I like how she left me panting for more at the end with the three fairy godmothers plotting and planning another Dunmore downfall.  Thumbs up on Lady Strumpet!