Review: An in between novella
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2013
This short story is barely ok as a stand alone story, but I'm sure if I had read the series, it would be more meaningful. The author does manage to establish the characters fairly well and hint at their past, but much is left to infer or to assume that the reader has been following the series. The characters are interesting, the plot for this story is about the DeVere's relationship, but the foundation for another book's plot is laid.Lord DeVere and his wife Diana are expecting their first child in a few weeks. She's feeling ungainly and unlovely, and he has been told by the doctor that sexual relations will be harmful to the mother and unwelcome, so he has been staying away. This has made Diana feel that her usually very amorous husband has lost interest in her and in their marriage. Unfortunately, at the same time, Lord Ludovic has been called to London to help two different friends, one a former lover and one a former school friend thought dead. While he's gone, Diana finds the note from the woman, not the school friend and fears that Ludovic is being unfaithful.Heat factor hot*************SPOILER ALERT**********When Diana confronts him, he challenges her to truly trust him, as he does her. After they have make up sex, her water breaks and she goes into labor. All is well with mother, father and child.