Review: Heart Wretching!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2013
For any lover of music, you will fall in love with this story. A love story of betrayal, cruelty, romance, forgiveness, and redemption. About a tortured, repressed soul, desperately trying to be freed and innocence lost. Being of a respectable upbringing, the step-daughter, Madeline is the prize. She is the willing barter for her mother to secure a wealthy marriage in order to maintain an accustomed lifestyle. During the courting festivities, the rake, Lucien, a musical savant, considers this another challenge for his lustful carnage. He is determined at any cost to seduce her. Madeline, however, is aware of his reputation, and thwarts him at every turn. Although, Madeline considered herself somewhat worldly, and educated, she has never experienced the matters of the heart, or the game of seduction. Let alone, Lucien, who does not understand his own emotional turmoil, considering, he has never known love, since his mothers death, as a child. To which, his father cruelly conditioned him, to lock away his emotions, and musical genius. Madeline knows she must resist, and deny herself, for the greater good of all involved. This is a rich, passionate romance, tht will draw you in and absorb you. I cannot say enough good about it. Very experienced, skilled writing. One of my favorite, all time novels.