Review: Short, sweet, saucy!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2014
GOODIE! I just discovered that Grace Burrowes had TWO new books out this week. I already read and reviewed DAVID, and today, Jonathan and Amy! Such a joy to be surprised this way.This one is 8.6 in the Windham series. You don't have to have read any of the others to be caught up in this one. Of course, this will probably lead you to want to read the others!Jonathan's mantra at the beginning of the story is "A gentleman does not make advances toward a woman in his employ." And it kills him. His dear daughter's governess, Amy, is a joy in so many ways. And he is thoroughly smitten. But he felt he embarrassed his wife during their marriage and before her death and he certainly doesn't want to do that with Amy. There are things that men of a certain ranking should not do, and making calf eyes after the help is one.When, after speaking with his dead wife's brother, he decides that it just doesn't matter, well, Jonathan steps up his game. He intends to have Amy as his wife and he doesn't hold back.For her part, Amy loves his honor, the way he loves his daughter, and his size. She just loves everything about him.While all this romance is going on, we, the readers, get to see the fly in the ointment. Amy's cousin knows something about her inheritance...and he wants it.I found the tension building as I wondered how much angst we were going to endure before that HEA that we read this kind of book for. Ms. Burrowes can torture us for pages, alas. Thankfully this is a novella and those that needed a slap got it in a relatively short amount of time.The anticipation of that fly making his move kept me reading. And the payoff was well worth the worry. I really would have liked to have seen the fly's mama get what was coming to her. I bet she frothed at the mouth!There was enough story here to make me forget that it was not a full length novel. This was fun and will tide me over until another full length GB novel comes along.