Review: When Love is Not Enough
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2011
Juliet Cameron and Ross Carlisle were married when they were young Juliet was only 18 and Ross just a few years older. Their personalities were a perfect match, Ross wanted to travel and see the world and Juliet loved adventure and travel, they planned to travel together and see the world, but family problems came up, Juliet didn't like living in the fishbowl that was London society and she made too many mistakes. Ross loved Juliet but maybe she did make a few mistakes.After six months of marriage, Juliet ran away, she felt that she was being smothered and she could never be the independent woman that she wanted to be, she felt she was being molded into a perfect London matron and that Ross would stop loving her and she would be like her mother. So she left and after she did she made a huge mistake.For twelve years Ross Carlisle has traveled around the world and returned to England to write about his travels in India and Asia, his plans to continue his travels to Lebanon and Norther Arabia are interrupted when he receives a message that his brother has passed away and his brother's wife who was hopefully carrying a boy had a daughter. Ross has to return to London as he is now the Marquis of Kilburn. He is also surprised to see his mother-in-law Lady Jean Cameron is at the British Ambassador's office. Jean is trying to get the ambassador to look into her son's capture in Bokhara, she has been told that Major Ian Cameron was executed by the Amir but she has information that says another officer is being held in the Black Well of Bokhara and she is certain it is her son. When the ambassador refuses to investigate, she implores Ross to go to Bokhara and ask for information about her son. The Amir hates English "Ferengi" and its dangerous for anyone to travel to Bokhara. Major Cameron was on a diplomatic mission when he was accused of being a spy. If he was still alive he had been in Bokhara for almost 2 years.Ross agrees to travel to Bokhara and while on the way through the Kara Kum desert he is attached by Turkoman fighter and rescued by the Chief of the fortress of Serevan, Gul-i-Sarahi.This is one of the more interesting Regencies as very little action takes place in England, Ross travels to Constantinople and from there to Teheran and other eastern countries. Ms. Putney has captured the way life was lived during the 1800's and how English travelers were treated by different groups of Muslims and Arabs. This is a great romance, action and adventure story. It's wonderful and timeless.