Review: Good
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2014
I enjoyed the story, though I admit it went on a bit too long for me.  There seemed to be an awful lot of dithering even when it became apparent the heroine knew she should marry the fellow.Our heroine first meets our hero when he has been injured.  She has been helping soldiers injured in battle, strayed too far and is almost sexually assaulted.  Our hero saves her.  The couple wind up staying in a cave for a few days.  Despite his injuries, the hero makes love to her.  She gives him a fake name, and after the pair get back to a town she slips away.He searches for the woman, but never finds her.  She had become pregnant from their encounter and bears a daughter.So the years pass and hero is expected to marry.  He travels to the home of a peer, but on the way he comes across an accident.  The person called to tend the injured man is our heroine.  She has been living almost hand to mouth as her grandfather allows her very little money.  She tries to support herself and her daughter by giving medical care to the locals.He recognizes the daughter as his as she has his green eyes.  He begins trying to convince the heroine to marry him while trying to stave off the aggressive daughter of the peer.  She is a rather nasty and conniving piece of work.  But we have a couple of male villains in the story as well.The hero realizes he needs to take mother and daughter to his family in London for their safety.  There the couple must come to terms not only with each other, but with the ton and his family.  His family is easier to deal with.There is a kidnapping and a murder, though I don't think the reader will have trouble figuring out everything ahead of time.  But it was a good story, even if some of it stretched believability.  I thought it was good romantic fiction, and I recommend it.