Review: Good plots and great characters!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2014
Lady Isabella, furious that her beau, Lord Alexander Fitzroy, was off to fight another conflict in Brussels, decrees that she will not have their wedding put off yet again. In fact, it will be moved forward and she will accompany him to the impending confrontation as his wife.  Lord Winton, father of Isabella agrees to her demands for an earlier wedding and takes matters into his own hands to get the church to agree and make the arrangements for the ceremony. While at the dressmakers organizing her trousseau, Isabella meets up with her best friends who add to her excitement when they share the news that they will also be marrying in time to accompany their new spouses to Brussels.  It's well known that the fighting takes second place to the socializing that the top military personnel enjoy. Therefore, the ladies need to purchase the prettiest articles for their forthcoming adventures. Their pleasure is soon diminished when Lord Verard Ladness, a rakehell who desires Isabella for his own, scares the poor girl her in her dressing room. She is ruined. Or so she believes - until Alex fights a duel for her honor. The last words from the crazed loser are," She's mine and I'll kill her before I let you have her."  And so Isabella's life is set with a perilous shadow following her into her future. And this menace continues to turn up in the most unexpected places. I have to admit that my favorite character was Isabella. A spirited lass - one who had a mind of her own in a time when that wasn't acceptable - continued to surprise me with her exploits. Love scenes that'll make you sigh, good plots and great characters made this book an easy 5-stars.