Review: Devil in My Arms
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2013
Devil in My ArmsEleanor Enderby is a woman on the run in London, 1819.  She has planned this escape carefully for months from her abusive husband.  She has been hiding for three months on the streets, and now run out of money and food. She's heading to a place she thinks will be her sanctuary, her sister's home.  As she approaches the front door, she is stopped by an imposing gentleman who calls her by name. Thinking she has been caught, and will be returned to the horror her life was, she attempts to ward him off with a weapon she stole from a drunken sailor on the docks. He introduces himself as Sir Hilary St. John a man known for his talent of "finding people and things"  Harry, Eleanor's sister and her husband Roger had asked Sir Hilary to find Eleanor as soon as they knew she was missing, but she had hidden herself very well.I enjoyed this novel, but there were so many twists and turns in the plot I became lost at times. I also felt that the idea that this well know woman in society could disappear for two months to a country home of a friend, change her hair style, dress differently and return to society introduced as Harry's widowed cousin Mrs. Elizabeth Fairchild was just a bit too far fetched. Sir Hilary and Eleanor/Elizabeth have a strong  attraction to each other, but hide it in midnight secret visits.  After all, she is still married.I had to really work hard to finish this novel, because I wanted to know what was going to happen. It was a delightful ending, but seemed to take way too long to get there.  I did enjoy the characters, especially Wiley, Sir Hilary's assistant.  There was great banter between the two.I received this novel from NetGalley for an honest review.Pat Fordyce