Review: SUPERB REGENCY ROMANCE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 12, 2012
When Diana the much loved wife of George Pembroke Viscount Sedgewick died, giving birth to their son. He retreated from life.Two years on and his lack of attention to his children is giving great concern to his two sisters. They tell him that he needs to be more attentive,a proper father. They suggest he either remarries or hires a woman of genteel birth to care for his children. His sister Glee has an idea her best friend Sally Spencer knows George's children well, they are very fond of Sally she would be an ideal candidate. But Sally and George have had many differences of opinion in the past. Sally is an outspoken girl, Glee thinks she might just be what George needs.George after seeing Sally with his children. Sees how much his son and daughter are attached to Sally, but she is the niece of an Earl. He cannot in good concience ask her to become his children's governess, and live under the same roof with him with no chaperone. So he asks Sally to marry him. This is to be a marriage of convenience, and will not be consummated. Sally agrees, what George does not know is that Sally has always been in love with him. But she would rather be married to him herself, than see him marry another woman for the second time. The first was painful enough for her. After their marriage George continues his drinking and gambling, putting their finances in jeopardy. Putting her foot down with him, she eventually persuades him to take her and the children home to Hornsby his country seat. Now if she could just persuade him to fall in love with her and forget the late Diana.But there is also an unseen enemy, who is out to destroy George. Which eventually puts his life in danger.Once again Cheryl Bolen excels in this genre, her knowledge of this period is second to none IMO. I loved how she took George's character and showed us the gradual change that Sally was able to make upon him. At the start of the story I was not sure that I was going to warm to him, especially as he kept mentally comparing Sally to his late wife Diana, and not very favourably. But of course Sally although she does not possess Diana's beauty, she is not as plain as she thinks, and George soon begins to see her wonderful qualities. I really liked Sally she was sensitive and caring, but never timid.A really lovely sensual romance.