Helpful Score: 1
This is the third book by Michele Ann Young that I have read. One thing I like about her books is the fact that the heroines are not like the usual Regency Lady. They might be older and they are most definately heavier, taller, described as rubanesque. In other words, not the slender beauties that attract a man's attention.
Lucinda is the wife of a cruel and nasty Viscount who abuses her both physically and emotionally. When life become unbearable, she sees an opportunity to flee and she takes it. In course of her flight, she acquires a little girl of maybe 2 years old. At first she looks as this child as a hinderance but ultimately, the child helps in her desguise. She finds a quiet, rural village and rents the dower house from the stewart of an absentee Lord. When Lord Hugo returns home suddenly, he discovers Lucinda living on his property. He came home from the war after suffering a severe leg injury and he's not too pleased with this situation. He just wants to be left alone with his brandy and injured leg that doesn't seem to heal. At first he wants her gone but the more he gets to know her, the more he wants her and soon he is devising ways to keep her with him.
Both the hero and heroine have their own issues and baggage that stand in the way of their happiness and must be overcome. And there is more than one villian in this story to muck things up a bit, but Ms. Young brings everything together and wraps it all up neatly with a wonderful HEA for our H/H.
I enjoyed this story but I was left with the feeling there is another story to be told about one of the villians who was not really a villian after all! I won't say his name here, that's too much information. You'll just have to read the book to find out who he is and see for yourself if you think he deserves his own story.
Lucinda is the wife of a cruel and nasty Viscount who abuses her both physically and emotionally. When life become unbearable, she sees an opportunity to flee and she takes it. In course of her flight, she acquires a little girl of maybe 2 years old. At first she looks as this child as a hinderance but ultimately, the child helps in her desguise. She finds a quiet, rural village and rents the dower house from the stewart of an absentee Lord. When Lord Hugo returns home suddenly, he discovers Lucinda living on his property. He came home from the war after suffering a severe leg injury and he's not too pleased with this situation. He just wants to be left alone with his brandy and injured leg that doesn't seem to heal. At first he wants her gone but the more he gets to know her, the more he wants her and soon he is devising ways to keep her with him.
Both the hero and heroine have their own issues and baggage that stand in the way of their happiness and must be overcome. And there is more than one villian in this story to muck things up a bit, but Ms. Young brings everything together and wraps it all up neatly with a wonderful HEA for our H/H.
I enjoyed this story but I was left with the feeling there is another story to be told about one of the villians who was not really a villian after all! I won't say his name here, that's too much information. You'll just have to read the book to find out who he is and see for yourself if you think he deserves his own story.
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