Review: I never did figure out whose heart was wicked in this rollicking Comedy of Errors.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2013
Pretty AMANDA THOMAS has been jilted at the altar by Viscount Ripton on the Isle of Syra in Greece!  This was her one chance to leave her employ as a secretary to an abusive lady writer who beat her.  Now she’s also penniless and homeless.  Believing that something awful befell her fiancé, Amanda goes to his hotel where an argument is in progress between the hotel manager, the police and – Viscount Ripton  (NOT her fiancé). This Viscount Ripton is seeking his missing cousin and believes that somehow Amanda and an accomplice must have kidnapped him.  So he kidnaps her thinking that she will lead him to the cousin.  This is certainly an action book; we’re plunged into it from the beginning and it doesn’t let up until the end. The two are confined in small quarters on their long journey back to England tracing his cousin, which has an effect on their initial animosity and lack of trust. Their need to work together as partners changes them both.  Our Ripton (Spencer) had been thrust into his role as head of his loony family at a very early age; he manages them very well, but gets very little back in return.  The moment where Amanda struggles to the deck of the ship during a hurricane to rescue Spence who has gone above to help is an epiphany for him – no one has ever thought to rescue him!  Back and forth their emotions teeter until Spence has no choice but to make her his own.  An enjoyable journey.