Review: Really liked this story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
I wasn't too sure about this story when I first started reading it because I don't read a lot of regency or time period stories but I really liked this one. I fell in love with Isabelle. She was set up to be in a marriage to a horrible man who was older than her by 30 something years. He liked things a certain way and that definitely included intimacy. Although in his case it wouldn't really be called intimacy. He was a horrible man. When he died he left nothing to Isabelle. Isabelle turned to her friend and her husband for help. Isabelle didn't want to get re married but instead find a job as a nanny. She didn't have any experience with that so her friend and husband wanted to set her up with the husbands cousin, Guy. Isabelle didn't like this idea because she didn't think it would look too proper but Guy talked her into just going over and meeting his son Charles then make her decision. When Isabelle went over she walked into the mass of friends that Guy had invited over on a whim along with his mistress. Isabelle couldn't believe that that was the kind of person that Guy was especially when he has a son. That isn't the type of person Guy is though. Then all of a sudden Guy gets a message that his mother just had a  bad heart attack and he had to go over right away. He talks Isabelle into going with him so that she can meet his son. While at his mothers estate Guy shows up in front of Isabelle and asks her to help him out with a task. His mother has always been sad because after his horrible marriage and divorce she wanted him to remarry. He has come up with the plan that Isabelle is his fiance so that his mother can be happy because the doctor doesn't think she will make it much longer. Then all of a sudden after some time his mother started to get better and their ruse was out in the open. Now people think they are engaged and soon to be married. Isabelle again decides to help Guy out and marry him. Even though Isabelle has no want to get married ever again she does it for him. While they are married they both have some hurdles to jump but they will do their best. This book is an easy read and a good one for anyone.