Review: Good story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 8, 2013
Charity is a young woman who has experienced a great trauma, and she suffers nightmares as a result.  Her family tries to protect her as much as possible but they cannot make her forget what happened.She had gotten involved in trying to catch French spies, but she was taken by them.  They didn't sexually assault her, but she was manhandled and eventually she was locked in a sort of cellar.  The spies were going to leave her there to die.  One did throw her a vial of poison that she might take her own life rather than die a slow death.  Charity was rescued but suffered afterwards.She meets Graeme at a party where proper young ladies should not be.  He has come to London from Scotland to find a wife.  There is instant attraction and a very short courtship. They elope to Gretna Green.Charity manages to hid her fears from him by using laudenmum to help her sleep, but eventually she has no more and the truth comes out.This is where I couldn't help feel the hero isn't that much of a hero.  He leaves without letting her explain, even though she tries to.  I realize there will be misunderstandings between the main characters, but that sort of behavior really puts me off in a romance.  I guess I look for exemplary behavior in the hero.But he gets the story of what happened to her from her family and returns home.  I might have changed the locks by then had  I been Charity.  The couple succumbs to their physical desire for one another, and things get better.  There is still one villain to deal with, but that is easily dealt with.The story was good, but I was disappointed with the main characters.  Charity`s behavior didn't always ring true, and at times the language didn't seem to either.Worth giving a read.