A Sporting Affair (The Corinthians Book 1)

A Sporting Affair (The Corinthians Book 1)
By: Paullett Golden
Published May 09, 2025

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Book Description

Rafe Fitz-Stephens lives a charmed good friends, loving family, academic success, and exclusive membership in the Vitruvian Society, a gentleman’s sporting club. When the annual village competition calls him home from London, he’s ready for a hero’s welcome–after all, there is no one better to win the games than a well-trained Corinthian. If only his training had included how to avoid tripping into a leg-shackle.

Genevieve Slade dreams of a stable home with a stable gentleman, stable friends, and, perhaps, a stable. Her father, however wealthy, moves his family from manor to manor, living as veritable gypsies to escape that horrifying word no one in the Slade household dares responsibility. As she settles into yet another new home in yet another new village, both dreams and disposition are shaken when a madcap stranger tumbles, literally, through her bedchamber window.

Join Rafe and Genevieve as these enemies-of-circumstance race to break the betrothal before either stumbles headlong in love with the other.

My Review

The games are afoot in A Sporting Affair. I love to read historical fiction and this book did not disappoint. A simple mistake turns into a significant complication for Rafe and Genevieve. Neither one was happy about it at first. They slowly grow on each other. Each character has their own experiences which affect some of the decisions they make throughout the story.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

If you’re looking for a good, clean historical romance, I recommend this one. Not only is it a romance, but it is also witty and charming. Some of the antics are downright comical.