Review: Fantastic reading
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2014
I enjoyed this book so much I could barely put it down.  Harry is Lord Wycliff who is trying to reclaim his family home.  His father lost their home and fortune in a crooked poker game to Godwin Phillips who is now deceased.  Phillips had a benefactor and no one knows his identity.  Harry goes to his family home and meets Phillips widow, Louisa.  She has just found out that her husband didn't own the house and has thirty days to leave.  She believes no man is trustworthy as she was sold by her father at the age of 15 to Phillips and now she finds out Phillips lied to her the whole time they were married.  She has a very soft spot in her heart for the poor children and needs help trying to reform the unfair penal system, regulate unfair child labor laws and see to it that all children are educated properly.  The two strike a bargain that if Harry will take his place in Parliament to fight for her causes she will help him find out who the true owner of the family home is.  They do not get along well at all.  She calls him and Aristocrat and he calls her a bloody bluestocking.  When they leave for the journey to Cornwall to find the identity of the benefactor they are barely speaking.  The trip takes much longer than expected and their journey seems as if it will never end.