Review: Very good and very different
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
I took a chance on this book because I saw it was the second in the series and I lovedBrandywine: Regency historical romance (The Brocade Series, Book 1).***Minor Spoilers***There wasn't enough info given by either of the reviews or by the synopsis, so I'll give a brief summary here. The h was married as a very young child to a Duke of a nearby estate in France. She lives in virtual isolation until she is 20 years old. Her father resents her and she has little interaction with anyone in her home save for her maid and governess. Suddenly she is sent by her father to live with her husband's family. She is collected by her brother-in-law Navarre (gorgeous name) and taken to live with her new family. Navarre is the H in this book and he is fabulous and he and the h are immediately attracted to each other. The h meets her husband and discovers that he was disabled in a riding accident years ago. The h is the youngest of 3 brothers and the middle brother is the villain. The middle brother spends most of his time at court but comes home when he runs into money troubles. Everyone in the Duke's home is desperate for the h to have a child so that the succession is passed on, thus avoiding the evil middle brother. The interesting part of the story is that the Duke wants the H and h to sleep together to have a child on his behalf, therefore protecting him from the evil middle brother, who had been the cause of his accident in the first place.***Bigger Spoiler***What prevented me giving this the 5th star is the fact that the h runs off at the end of the book and joins a convent without getting the facts from the H first. It truly annoyed me and spoilt what was pretty much an amazing book up to that point. Obviously everything works out in the end and we get our hea but I could have lived without this part of the story.