Review: Good story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2014
I liked this story, although I admit I couldn't envision the characters as real people.  The writing didn't really pull me in to that point.The heroine, Charlie, is the illegitimate daughter of a lord, and she lives with her half-sister and that young woman's husband.  The couple are recently married and he is a doctor.  The half-sister is nearly blind.  The father of both women is dead and their mourning period over, but the father's estate hasn't been settled.  They are getting desperate for funds to keep the manor running.When the legitimate daughter receives a letter from her aunt telling her she is to come to London, she persuades Charlie to go in her place and to pretend to be her.  The aunt has ignored her for years, and the newly married couple are worried the family might try to have their marriage annulled.Charlie is persuaded to go and plans to see the lawyer in charge of settling the estate.  However the aunt has other plans.  She believes her niece to be an unmarried woman.  Charlie had been coerced into a marriage a few years ago but the husband went through her dowry and then disappeared.While she has no great faith in men in general and men of the ton in particular Charlie finds herself attracted to James, the aunt's younger son.  He originally comes across as the usual man of society but proves himself to be more.  He helps Charlie with the legal matters and discovers a little something of help regarding her marriage.  That works in his favor too as he has fallen in love with her and wants to marry her.There is little in the way of a threat to the couple and the story moves along quickly. I think most readers have the plot figured out.