Review: THIS one I love, and I vow you will too!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2013
Having read "Highlander's Hope" first, I just had to go back and read this novel which, although released by the author second comes FIRST chronologically.  I enjoyed the other book, but I loved this one.  Everything the other was lacking, this one had and more.  :)Ian Hamilton, Viscount Warrick, still mourning his brother and father, heads to London to seek out Evangeline Caruthers, the strumpet he holds responsible for their deaths.  Planning to ruin her in the eyes of the ton, thereby exposing her wanton nature and dashing all hopes of a proper match, Ian hopes to find some small amount of vengence.  What he doesn't plan on is finding Vangie to be so beautiful and innocent--at least on the surface.  When the time comes, he finds he just can't go through with the plan,  but circumstances still find them in a compromising position and dash it all--his honor compells him to do the right thing and marry her.  Well, his honor and her extremely protective and powerful uncle, that is.Vangie doesn't want to marry Ian!  It's all a misunderstanding, but in the eyes of society she knows she is ruined.  Ian is her only hope to have a family of her own.  She could always run away to her Roma family, but she knows that would cause shame to her uncle and her beloved cousin Yvette.  There's just nothing for it---they must wed.  Maybe it won't be so terrible.  Ian must have a shred of honor and decency or he would've never agreed to the forced match.  And he is rather handsome.....and kind.Just as the two learn to tolerate each other, Ian's wicked (and possibly completely unhinged) stepmother rears her ugly head.  All sorts of bad things begin to happen yet Ian never suspects that maybe his stepmother is trying to get him out of the way so that her daughter can inherit.  Oooooh she's an evil character---very well drawn and positively fascinating!  Readers will love rooting against her!This book is very well done.  It's much more engaging than the first in the series, with more depth to the characters, more romance, and just a general feeling of being thoroughly thought through and carefully crafted.  Bravo, Collette Cameron.  I hope another soon follows!