Problemas de serialización de WebAPI al consumir la API de Recurly Rest que devuelve XML

Soy nuevo en la API web de ASP.Net. Estoy tratando de interactuar con la API basada en REST de Recurly y recibo errores como los de abajo durante mi llamada ReadAsAsync, que es el punto que creo que intenta serializar la respuesta.

{"Error in line 1 position 73. Expecting element 'account' from namespace 'http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/RecurlyWebApi.Recurly'.. Encountered 'Element'  with name 'account', namespace ''. "}

Aquí está mi implementación de HttpClient, simplificada por brevedad:

  public class RecurlyClient
  {
    readonly HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

    public RecurlyClient()
    {
      var config = (RecurlySection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("recurly");

      client.BaseAddress = new Uri(string.Format("https://{0}.recurly.com/v2/", config.Subdomain));

      // Add the authentication header
      client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(config.ApiKey)));

      // Add an Accept header for XML format.
      client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/xml"));
    }

    public T Get<T>(string id)
    {
      var accounts = default(T);

      // Make the request and get the response from the service
      HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(string.Concat("accounts/", id)).Result;  // Blocking call!

      if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
      {
        // Parse the response body. Blocking!
        accounts = response.Content.ReadAsAsync<T>().Result;
      }

      return accounts;
    }
  }

Y aquí está mi modelo:

  [XmlRoot("account")]
  public class Account
  {
    [XmlAttribute("href")]
    public string Href { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("account_code")]
    public string AccountCode { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("state")]
    public AccountState State { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("username")]
    public string Username { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("email")]
    public string Email { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("first_name")]
    public string FirstName { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("last_name")]
    public string LastName { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("company_name")]
    public string Company { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("accept_language")]
    public string LanguageCode { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("hosted_login_token")]
    public string HostedLoginToken { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("created_at")]
    public DateTime CreatedDate { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("address")]
    public Address Address { get; set; }
  }

Y un ejemplo de la respuesta XML del servicio:

<account href="https://mysubdomain.recurly.com/v2/accounts/SDTEST01">
  <adjustments href="https://mysubdomain.recurly.com/v2/accounts/SDTEST01/adjustments"/>
  <invoices href="https://mysubdomain.recurly.com/v2/accounts/SDTEST01/invoices"/>
  <subscriptions href="https://mysubdomain.recurly.com/v2/accounts/SDTEST01/subscriptions"/>
  <transactions href="https://mysubdomain.recurly.com/v2/accounts/SDTEST01/transactions"/>
  <account_code>SDTEST01</account_code>
  <state>active</state>
  <username>myusername</username>
  <email>[email protected]</email>
  <first_name>First name</first_name>
  <last_name>Last name</last_name>
  <company_name>My Company Name</company_name>
  <vat_number nil="nil"></vat_number>
  <address>
    <address1>My Address Line 1/address1>
    <address2>My Address Line 2</address2>
    <city>My City</city>
    <state>My State</state>
    <zip>PL7 1AB</zip>
    <country>GB</country>
    <phone>0123456789</phone>
  </address>
  <accept_language nil="nil"></accept_language>
  <hosted_login_token>***</hosted_login_token>
  <created_at type="datetime">2013-08-22T15:58:17Z</created_at>
</account>

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