Review: Hero's
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
Hero of My Heart is the story of two heroes, one woman, one man, each taking turns being heroic while the other falls apart.Mary Smith is a beautiful young woman who found herself in disgrace after her father’s recent death. Torn from life as she knew it, her half brother arranges to sell her to the highest bidder at a local tavern, a scheme he created in order to cover his debts. The attraction to the bidders? She is an innocent vicar's daughter.Alasdair Thornham, Marquess of Datchworth, is in this same tavern in a drug- and alcohol-induced stupor, drowning his pain and sorrows. Fortunately he is not in such a state that he doesn't see something very wrong with what is happening. A dazed young woman is being leered at by various low lifes who want to “buy" her innocence. He rouses himself to become the highest bidder to protect her from these raucous men, and fairly quickly she becomes his. After spiriting her off to his room, he sees how frightened she is, but she doesn't appear terrified of him. He starts to feel a growing sense of admiration for her courage. Alasdair decides the only way to solve this dilemma is to marry her, and set her on a road to a productive life. When that’s accomplished he'll descend back into his own self-imposed misery.Alasdair and Mary’s journey is amusing at times, will bring tears to your eyes at others, and occasionally will incite quite a lot of anger in you. Circumstances beyond their control work to tear the two apart, but somehow they muster the courage and strength to help each other. Mary, to a life she never dreamed, and Alasdair to a love he never thought possible.I enjoyed this historical romance and the healing of two broken hearts.  I would recommend this novel for its humor, bravery, and love.I received this ARC from NetGalley and Romance at Random for an honest review.  No compensation was offered nor accepted.