Review: Great beginning but slow in the middle
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
The title The Runaway Heiress explains one of the major plot devices in this Regency romance penned by the talented author Brenda Hiatt, but this story also features a scheming relative, a marriage of convenience, and a heroine who frequently engages in vigorous exercise that most would consider rather manly pursuits for the time period. As I love plots that feature runaway ladies, and this heroine was rather unconventional and had a plan to save herself, I was delighted when a handsome hero felt obligated to marry the heroine after she helped him avert a family scandal involving his own sister. Sadly, as much of this plot information is contained on the cover blurb and teaser page and occurs early on, I can only lament that the this story seemed to lose momentum once the ink was dry on this couple's marriage lines. Then, for far too many chapters, there was no real attraction or spark between the couple, as they seemed set on avoiding one another. Thus, their unconsummated marriage of convenience, accompanied by a placid and rather predictable storyline, ambled along uneventfullly until darker circumstances required the hero and heroine to re-evaluate one another and fall in love.