Review: Heart Warming
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2014
Lady Ophelia is living a depressing and meager existence in a small cottage in the country due to the death of her father, her brother’s abandonment and her mother’s terminal illness.  She encounters Viscount Andrew Stark at the river and when he rescues her from the water and delivers her home, he realizes that she and her mother are in dire need of help.  He is intrigued by the frail but determined Lady Darlington as well as the beautiful Ophelia and agrees to remove them both to London to stay with him while he assists Ophelia to find work as an artist’s model.  Her mother wants to make sure she’ll be taken care of after she is gone but of course Lady Darlington has more in mind for her daughter than that, and as she imparts her wisdom and loving advice to them both, she’ll see things settled to her satisfaction before she dies.  Even though this story dealt with the imminent death of a beloved mother, and there was sadness and regret, there was also love and healing for an emotionally damaged man and a despairing young lady and I enjoyed it very much.