{"id":32202,"date":"2026-06-18T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=32202"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:46:13","slug":"review-a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-by-shana-galen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/review-a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-by-shana-galen\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f A Shop Girl&#8217;s Guide to Wooing a Lord by Shana Galen"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-32202\" data-postid=\"32202\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-32202 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_64xe529 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top gutter-narrow tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_ux2u529 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_00mg529 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?resize=640%2C987&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-32203\" title=\"a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen\" alt=\"a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?w=973&amp;ssl=1 973w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?resize=664%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 664w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?resize=768%2C1184&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?resize=400%2C616&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_9cdz529 customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Tamsin Archer might just be having the worst year of her life. And that\u2019s saying something, considering her father is dead, her mother was maimed at work, and her family regularly sleeps under London\u2019s bridges. But when her younger siblings go missing, Tamsin decides it\u2019s time to step up and fight.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Tamsin\u2019s more than willing to take a few risks to reunite with her siblings. But while disguising herself to sneak into homes and steal from the rich, Tamsin is caught by Garret Kildare, the second son of an earl. Much to Tamsin\u2019s surprise, Garret doesn\u2019t want to turn her in. He wants to\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">help<\/span>\u00a0her. Though Tamsin\u2019s wary\u2014she\u2019s learned to never trust supposed \u201cgood luck\u201d\u2014the unlikely pair form an alliance, one that quickly muddles their class differences.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Garret knows he must be careful. Falling for a woman of a lower class could be the nail in the coffin for his family\u2019s tenuous social standing, and there are eyes everywhere. Ignoring their attraction proves impossible, though, and soon the lines they\u2019ve drawn around their partnership begin to blur. As more focus lands on Tamsin and Garret, they wonder if their red-hot connection means giving up everything\u2014and everyone\u2014they\u2019ve ever known.<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_k2q2530 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_rrpf530  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25881 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-recommends-banner-1.png?resize=296%2C72\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Jun 9, 2026<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The Heiress Hunters<br \/><\/em><strong>Book: <\/strong>1<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $10.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Unexpected, in all the best ways.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Galen\u2019s latest still has her signature style. Strong heroines who save themselves and heroes who fall for them. If you haven\u2019t read Galen before, I do recommend you revisit this. She has a knack for a historical romance that contains a touch of action, adventure, and usually unconventional storylines. This latest book is no exception.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have <strong>Tamsin Archer<\/strong>, a lower-class working girl. She\u2019s doing whatever she can to ensure her mother and younger siblings can survive. But in a world where everything goes wrong, to Tamsin and her family, it has. Lost her father, lost her stepfather, a mother with a serious injury, and her siblings sold off by their landlord to a chimney sweep outfit. What\u2019s a gal with no way out to do? Definitely not what you think&#8230; It\u2019s rob the nobs. Her thieving brings her face-to-face with the second son of a lord who once upon a time did her a kindness. He\u2019s gorgeous, and she\u2019ll never see him again, so why not steal a kiss on top of everything else she\u2019s thieving?<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Garrett Kildare<\/strong> is an ex-Navy man. A mere \u2018sir\u2019 in the levels of nobility, but he still has a reputation to uphold, even if half of that has been built on how many mugs of ale he can stack. Garrett typically steers clear of anything to do with responsibility since escaping the horrors he suffered at sea (love me a bit of tortured hero). Until he meets Tamsin, until she steals a kiss, and until he finds himself unable to think of anything except finding her and making her pay for her thievery&#8230; erm, maybe more like finding out she\u2019s thieving in the first place.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What comes from this is Garrett with a touch of hero complex and this deep desire to get Tamsin to look at him as if he\u2019s hung the moon. Only she doesn\u2019t need him, or does she? Temptation to be around the man she\u2019s had a crush on for the last two years is hard to say no to. Especially when he wants to help her find a way to save her siblings. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot of this book, the characters, the gut-wrenching realities Tamsin and her family faced that were exposed, and how Garrett navigated falling for a woman so different from him.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What keeps this from being a five? The fact that the title and the cover were selected to imply rom-com when this story is so much deeper and not really a rom-com in the least. There were plenty of moments where I smiled, but no laughing out loud. The elements within the story are heavy, while the ultimate conflicts resolve into a low-stress ending, even a bit anticlimactic (which I\u2019ll be honest, I quite enjoyed). <strong>Galen<\/strong> also leaves plenty of room to explore the rest of the Kildare family, three more brothers and a sister. I\u2019m invested.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, if you enjoy stories by<strong> Mimi Matthews<\/strong> and <strong>Courtney Milan,<\/strong> this one will be right up your alley.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_o5f9530 customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gsandF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3QzDu4e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen\/1148263644?ean=9798217188529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/a-shop-girl-s-guide-to-wooing-a-lord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Shana_Galen_A_Shop_Girl_s_Guide_to_Wooing_a_Lord?id=2aCFEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamsin Archer might just be having the worst year of her life. 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src=\"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg\" title=\"a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen\" alt=\"a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?w=973&amp;ssl=1 973w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?resize=664%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 664w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?resize=768%2C1184&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen.jpg?resize=400%2C616&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tamsin Archer might just be having the worst year of her life. And that\u2019s saying something, considering her father is dead, her mother was maimed at work, and her family regularly sleeps under London\u2019s bridges. But when her younger siblings go missing, Tamsin decides it\u2019s time to step up and fight.<br \/><br \/>Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Tamsin\u2019s more than willing to take a few risks to reunite with her siblings. But while disguising herself to sneak into homes and steal from the rich, Tamsin is caught by Garret Kildare, the second son of an earl. Much to Tamsin\u2019s surprise, Garret doesn\u2019t want to turn her in. He wants to\u00a0help\u00a0her. Though Tamsin\u2019s wary\u2014she\u2019s learned to never trust supposed \u201cgood luck\u201d\u2014the unlikely pair form an alliance, one that quickly muddles their class differences.<br \/><br \/>Garret knows he must be careful. Falling for a woman of a lower class could be the nail in the coffin for his family\u2019s tenuous social standing, and there are eyes everywhere. Ignoring their attraction proves impossible, though, and soon the lines they\u2019ve drawn around their partnership begin to blur. As more focus lands on Tamsin and Garret, they wonder if their red-hot connection means giving up everything\u2014and everyone\u2014they\u2019ve ever known.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-recommends-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Jun 9, 2026<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The Heiress Hunters<br \/><\/em><strong>Book: <\/strong>1<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $10.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Unexpected, in all the best ways.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Galen\u2019s latest still has her signature style. Strong heroines who save themselves and heroes who fall for them. If you haven\u2019t read Galen before, I do recommend you revisit this. She has a knack for a historical romance that contains a touch of action, adventure, and usually unconventional storylines. This latest book is no exception.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have <strong>Tamsin Archer<\/strong>, a lower-class working girl. She\u2019s doing whatever she can to ensure her mother and younger siblings can survive. But in a world where everything goes wrong, to Tamsin and her family, it has. Lost her father, lost her stepfather, a mother with a serious injury, and her siblings sold off by their landlord to a chimney sweep outfit. What\u2019s a gal with no way out to do? Definitely not what you think... It\u2019s rob the nobs. Her thieving brings her face-to-face with the second son of a lord who once upon a time did her a kindness. He\u2019s gorgeous, and she\u2019ll never see him again, so why not steal a kiss on top of everything else she\u2019s thieving?<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Garrett Kildare<\/strong> is an ex-Navy man. A mere \u2018sir\u2019 in the levels of nobility, but he still has a reputation to uphold, even if half of that has been built on how many mugs of ale he can stack. Garrett typically steers clear of anything to do with responsibility since escaping the horrors he suffered at sea (love me a bit of tortured hero). Until he meets Tamsin, until she steals a kiss, and until he finds himself unable to think of anything except finding her and making her pay for her thievery... erm, maybe more like finding out she\u2019s thieving in the first place.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What comes from this is Garrett with a touch of hero complex and this deep desire to get Tamsin to look at him as if he\u2019s hung the moon. Only she doesn\u2019t need him, or does she? Temptation to be around the man she\u2019s had a crush on for the last two years is hard to say no to. Especially when he wants to help her find a way to save her siblings. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot of this book, the characters, the gut-wrenching realities Tamsin and her family faced that were exposed, and how Garrett navigated falling for a woman so different from him.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What keeps this from being a five? The fact that the title and the cover were selected to imply rom-com when this story is so much deeper and not really a rom-com in the least. There were plenty of moments where I smiled, but no laughing out loud. The elements within the story are heavy, while the ultimate conflicts resolve into a low-stress ending, even a bit anticlimactic (which I\u2019ll be honest, I quite enjoyed). <strong>Galen<\/strong> also leaves plenty of room to explore the rest of the Kildare family, three more brothers and a sister. I\u2019m invested.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, if you enjoy stories by<strong> Mimi Matthews<\/strong> and <strong>Courtney Milan,<\/strong> this one will be right up your alley.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gsandF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3QzDu4e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/a-shop-girls-guide-to-wooing-a-lord-shana-galen\/1148263644?ean=9798217188529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/a-shop-girl-s-guide-to-wooing-a-lord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Shana_Galen_A_Shop_Girl_s_Guide_to_Wooing_a_Lord?id=2aCFEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32206,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32202\/revisions\/32206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}