Review: Just an average HR read.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2012
Sometimes I enjoy Emma Wildes novels and this Kindle download is the Kindle equivalent of 271 pages and is not very expensive, so I thought "Why not?"It follows the first two novels in Wildes' Ladies in Waiting series.  If you likedOne Whisper Away: Ladies in WaitingandTwice Fallen: Ladies in Waiting, you'll probably like this also, but it covers no new HR ground.As usual in a Wildes book, you get 2 romances for the price of one.  Since childhood, Vivian LaCrosse has been the dear friend of Charles Caverleigh, younger son of the Duke of Sanford.  They are expected to marry, but when Charles meets and falls in love with the vicar's daughter, Vivian encourages him to elope, since no parental permission is to be found and she and Charles love each other only platonically.So they elope.  The Duke of Sanford and Vivian's parents are appalled and Charles's older brother Lucien (heir to the Sanford dukedom) steps up to the plate and asks her to marry him.  Turns out Lucien has always loved her but said nothing because he thought she and Charles were in love so he's not at all reluctant to marry her.  But does he mention this in his proposal to Vivian?  Well, what do you think?  This is an HR and they're not famous for having open communication between H and h.Anyway, because we have 2 couples, one already married when the book begins and one engaged to be married, we're supplied with some hot romantic scenes, but there's not much conflict in the romances so Wilde pads the book with the abduction of Lucien. Now no one knows where in the world Lucien is (except for the reader).  Did he leave Vivian at the altar just like his younger brother did?All is well at the end and the abduction ties in nicely to the previous book in the series so if you are following this Wilde series, you might enjoy reading this.