Review: Another great success
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2013
Last year`s huge self-published surprise, The Duke`s Tattoo, was book 1 in a series and finally we get to read book 2 - a book I personally have been waiting for with bated breath. The Duke`s Tattoo was a fun and charming read and I loved how someone could publish such a huge success all by herself.So now we have book number two in the series and it`s at least as great as The Duke`s Tattoo. Elisabeth is an amazing heroine who will marry for love only - she wants the kind of love her parents had - and since her father has promised her to a man she does not know, she runs away and plans on hiding until she is old enough to have her mother`s inheritance. Clun, on the other hand, does not want to marry for love at all because he`s seen how bitter love can turn by watching the marriage between his parents turn sour. This is why he`s agreed to marry Elisabeth without ever having met her.Elisabeth hides in a cottage on Clun`s estate because she assumes this is the last place anyone will look for her. As it happens, she runs into Clun and when he realizes who she is he starts helping her out under a false name. They grow more and more attracted to one another, which is a problem for Clun who desperately wants a love-less marriage.What I truly loved in this book was how deep the characters were described. The pain Clun feels from his mother`s bitterness is very well described but the way Elisabeth is almost invisible to her father - because he can only have one love (her mother who is long dead) and cares for noone else - will make your heart bleed when you read it. Clun and Elisabeth are truly a good match because they see the pain in each other and have true understanding about what the other one has gone through. Throughout the book they prove how they can not only help each other mend the wounds but also give each other some more direct aid.Miranda Davis has kept the humor I loved so much from her first book and I found myself laughing out loudly while reading. But this book also has depth and I loved it for it. Oh, and did I mention that it was hot? Because it was. The attraction between the two main characters is not only between two pained hearts but also very physical. *wipes brow*I can recommend this book and I hope it sells buckets because I`m truly impressed that someone can publish a book like this with no aid from publishers.