Twenty-one year old Margaret Peterson has been tempting men into the bushes to try and find a man to marry her. She is old enough that she wants her own home, her own children, and providing that the man is the right one she wants her own husband. Unfortunately she has found a man that tries to take advantage of her and she is rescued by the one and only man that she wants to be married to and that is John Parker-Roth. She met him a year ago at a house party and they spent a bit of time arguing over plants and she thought that he had formed an attachment to her. However, John went back to his home leaving Meg to know that he does not share these feelings with her. Things go from bad to worse for Meg when the worst gossip in the ton sees her with John in the state of disrepair that the first gentleman left her in. John does the right thing and offers for her but she declines him because she does not want a man who does not truly love her and will not relish her company.

Unfortunately Meg and John’s family are bound and determined that this couple will marry so they do everything that they can to push them together. The family succeeds and the couple marries. Will this marriage end up being a happy marriage? Both Meg and John want something from the other one but can they find it in themselves to voice what they want rather than letting the marriage go?

Only Sally MacKenzie can make a secluded garden more provocative than the most private bedroom scene that I’ve ever read. I didn’t think too much about the book starting out in the garden but as it progressed and more and more couples seemed to end up in the garden getting to know each other it became quite hilarious to me. I loved Meg because she was not going to marry him just because it was the proper thing to do; she wanted a man to love her, she was too independent to settle for less. John was a bit on the shy side but his lively family is only too happy to help him to overcome that also. I loved this book and what I like about all of the Naked books that Ms. MacKenzie has written is that they are all different and very unique. Some of them are more on the erotic side, some on the more humorous side and then there is The Naked Gentleman which is more on the shy and gradually gets to know each other side. I can’t wait to see what the next book in this series will be.

Reviewed by: Missy