Review: A FURRY FAIRY GODMOTHER IS AFOOT IN THIS KOOKY & STEAMY TALE
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
Fairy Godmother are so important when a couple needs a helping hand, push or even a shove to make their love blossom. This story is extra special because this Fairy Godmother has 4 paws, is kinda furry, a tail and loves to be petted and scratched! Come meet the unique and sometimes smelly Vera!When Lady Katherine Grandfield was 16, she ran to Edward Stanhope to be compromised, so they could marry. Her father would not let Kat and Edward marry because his a 2nd son, had no prospects and all he was trained to do is play his beloved music. Edward refuses to compromise his Kitty because he agrees with her father. So to make himself worthy of her, he brought a commission and is leaving to fight on the continent. Kat is devastated and begs him with tears, and even her body, to stay, and he says NO! Edward then has the nerve to ask her to PROMISE that she will wait for him. Kat flips out and screams that she will never love him again. As she and her trusted maid/friend, Fanny, stalk across his lawn, she hears wood and glass breaking, so she goes to the window to see if he is hurt. She sees him shattering the violin, that she brought him, against the wall and she realized their love was demolished forever.Six years has past and Kat has had 5 Season, as a diamond of the first water, and tonight is her betrothal ball. As she and her fiancé, Viscount Lawrence (Laurie) Sinclair, are standing up front for her Father's toast, Kat looks out on the crowd and see a ghost from her past, Edward, and she faints! Edward is now a famous war hero and granted a title, Earl of Randolph, a London home, an estate and wealth galore, but he still feels unworthy of her because of his PTSD from the war. Now here comes the furry Fairy Godmother of their story, Vera. She is Kat's ugly, slightly smelly and unique dog. Vera finds Edward at the park, during one of his PTSD episodes, and she bonds to him and tries to help and even heal him.With Vera's help of coming and going from Edward and then to Kat, they are together and passions ignite between them. Kat is still in love with him and tries to get Edward to love her again. Edward then serious cripples her heart and soul, by faking an affair with his Spanish friend, Elena Marquez-Navarro. Elena is sensual, beautiful, oozes sexuality from ever pore and has a luscious body, an exact opposite of Kat. Edward, Elena, Kat and Laurie are always thrown together all Season long and sparks, provocative looks, kisses and wandering hands fly. Can Edward swallow his pride and get help with his PTSD? Can Kat forgive all the pain that Edward has caused? Who will win and earn Kat's heart? ? What are Laurie and Elena roles? But most impotently, who will get custody of the loveable and caring Vera?This is my first Diana Quincy book and my pompoms have been pulled out and I am cheering, "I am her newest FAN!" Ms. Quincy creates these wonderful characters and they worm their way into your heart. It doesn't matter if it's the hero, heroine, the betrothed or the sexy Spanish beauty. I loved them all. Her hero and heroine had the same flaw, hiding their true selves. Kat hide behind a mask of dazzling beauty and Edward's mask hide his PTSD from the world and they both see it in one another. Ms. Quincy writes some tantalizing, magnetic, arousing and inventive romance scenes. It was such a steamy romance, my comfy reading corner felt like a supernatural event. Ms. Quincy has earned my score of 4 fingers up and 8 toes and I will be reading many more of her books.NetGalley ARC given for my honest review.