This was a great romance buddy read! I loved it from beginning to end. I really do need to read more of Duran's backlist when I get a chance. This is the third book of hers I have done a buddy read on and she's a great writer. 

"Lucky Be a Lady" follows Catherine Everleigh. Catherine is an heiress with a problem. If she doesn't marry, she will end up losing her half of her family's auction house. Her brother is threatening to force her to marry someone against her will. Catherine though realizes that what she needs is a husband, but one that she can use to get her brother to keep silent on the marriage so she can take control. That man is Nicholas O'Shea, a rising crime lord in London. 

Catherine and Nicholas were great together. I love marriage of convenience subplots that take place in the Regency and Victorian era because they definitely happened back then and you can see how if you are left with zero choices, you would have one. What is great though is Catherine and Nicholas attraction to each other throughout and the hot scenes we get. That said, Duran develops Catherine and Nicholas very well. We get a scene with Catherine was a young girl and then shift later to Nicholas a young boy. They both have their reasons for why they do things, and it was great to see all of that slowly come out throughout the book. 

Some of my favorite scenes were the card game, Nicholas rescuing Catherine, and the ending with Catherine forcing Nicholas to read something. 

The ending was great, but I won't like, I wish sometimes that Duran would show her leads a few months after we get their HEA's just so see how things have changed.