Review: Short, sweet, funny, romantic story.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2011
This is a short, sweet, funny, romantic story.Short description... young girl runs away to Gretna Green to get married after meeting young man three hours earlier.Her father catches up to them and stops the wedding but she has been "ruined" on the way to Gretna Green.Her father marries her to an old man who begrudges every penny spent... and the story begins at his funeral.There's a reading of the will. She must marry one of the two partners in 2 years to inherit the estate.Meanwhile... she stands up for herself and gets established in town with a nice house and a good allowance to enjoy life.She learns a little more about life and being respectable, makes friends and waits out the one year of mourning wear... and then enjoys having pretty dresses and colors to wear.One of the partners bows out of marrying her due to health reasons... leaving the other partner as someone to marry to inherit her fortune.She is attracted to the handsome partner who is left and hopes for romance and marriage... she dreams.Then, a major complication... the boy who she never saw again after her father rescued her from the trip to Gretna Green... returns to England as a grown man and a rich man and tries to start right up where they left off!Who will win her heart and hand in marriage? The handsome partner? Or the instant attraction when she was young?Will she be a fool again? Maybe, maybe not. The title should have had a question mark on it, for sure!You'll have to read it to find out! Enjoy!