Review: THE LORD'S WARD
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 18, 2011
Miss Freddie Lambeth has written to her guardian Thomas Lord Stacks, she requests if she can visit him. Her Aunt and Uncle are trying to marry her to a gout ridden man of 70 years old, she is desperate to escape away from them and their odious but beautiful daughter Roxanne. Lord Stacks is quite looking forward to his ward visiting he is more of a recluse since the death of his wife Elizabeth, rumours are rife about her death and his involvement. He is pleased that he will have the company of his departed old friends son Freddie. Only when he goes to meet the coach he is amazed to find that Freddie is a she and not a he.I really enjoyed this story I have not read this author before and was pleasantly surprised. The characters are well developed and the story flows very well. lord Stacks is a good man even though he is the object of gossip locally and in London regarding his marriage. He makes every effort to give Freddie a warm welcome. Freddie is only eighteen but very mature for her age, her father had always blamed her for his wife's death, straight after Freddie was born. Although Lord Stacks is much older than her in his late thirties, it does not prevent Freddie falling in love with him. But Thomas has sworn never to marry again. A very