Review: anything can happen during the holidays...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2012
***original review with spoilers posted at Romancing Rakes***You know, I've got stop taking peeks at some of these books I've been getting until I'm done reading older review books. But who am I to resist the temptation of a Tessa Dare story? Obviously, I keep coming back for more, like that poor girl, Violet Winterbottom. I don't know when to quit and I'm glad I didn't. My self restraint is as good as The Disappointment's, barely non-existent. At least when it come to the lovely Violet.Violet Winterbottom gave everything away to The Disappointment a year ago and he left her with a note, 26 stinking words! Since then, she's been trying to get over him and now that she finally sort of has, He comes back into her life in the form of an injured crazed man, washed on to the shores of Spindle Cove.Violet is very surprised when the man bursts through the door during the winter ball, babbling incoherently and grabs for her dress. Since she has a knack for languages, Lord Rycliff (the hero of A Night to Surrender) asks her what the man is saying. He keeps repeating the same thing over and over again. His name, where he's from, what he does and the fact he knows nothing.As she sits and waits on what Rycliff will do with the man, Violet must try to get information out of him. Violet soon realizes that this man is none other than The Disappointment. The same man who she gave her heart and her virtue to and was left only a note to remember him by, never to hear from him ever again. At first, she tries to get him to confess to who he really is, telling him why she's in Spindle Cove. Then when the truth comes out, everything is laid out on the table: their feelings for one another, where he's been all this time, why he left, why she only got a note and how long she's been into him.Action, adventure, romance, a pistol packing heroine with a penchant for languages, a humble farmhand who isn't really a farmhand and a winter's eve that will live forever in the minds of the residents of Spindle Cove. Oh, did I mention all of this took place in one night? Yes, Tessa Dare has packed such a wonderful, intriguing, heart tugging read in the space of one night, all neatly wrapped in a story of a second chance at love. Now, I shall dive back into Spindle Cove withA Night to Surrendersince I haven't gotten around to it.***review copy provided by author***