Review: Do not waste your time on this one!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2012
First of all, there's no romance here. There's a young girl grieving for her brother and a duke who has been grieving for his dead wife for seven years and suddenly decides he wants to marry this girl. I mean, the girl's own mother goes and ASKS him to marry her, for heaven's sake! There's no romance here, and the girl says no because all she wants to do is follow through on her plan to escape to America to rescue her brother, if he is still alive. But the duke insists on betrothing himself to her and accompanying her on the trip, and when he discovers her father is a brute, decides to take her mother along as a chaperone.Okay, there's still time to get some romance here, right? It takes a long time to get to America. . . maybe something interesting will happen. Nope. And to make it all worse, when you get to the end, there's a giant cliffhanger because the fate of the brother is still unknown.I didn't care much for the duke's arrogance; was he interested in the heroine only because she was the only woman NOT trying to attach him? I liked the heroine's courage in taking steps to rescue her brother on her own; she should have passed on the pushy duke.I really, really hate cliffhangers. You mean I have to buy ANOTHER book to find out what happened to the brother? I've fallen for that trick once too often. You buy book after book and even when you finally get to the last one, there are still unresolved loose ends. Forget it! No romance + no HEA = giant waste of time (although not money since this one was free).I believe I have read and enjoyed other books by this author. But now that I have seen this one, I will have to scrutinize her work more carefully in future.