Review: Sweet
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 1, 2014
This short story was very sweet.Josh is our hero, and an unlikely one for the usual Regency.  He is a butler -- the head butler in a London house.  The master is gone for the Christmas season, and Josh has sent the staff off to celebrate the season with their families.Our heroine is Grace.  Her father had been an apothecary, but now her parents are both dead.  It seems her half-brother has decided he feels no responsibility for her and kicked her out into the street.  She had turned to those she thought of as friends but found they would not help her.  Grace has been reduced to begging for food and sleeping in empty courtyards.  All the while, she is trying to avoid being attacked and/or molested.But Josh lets her into the empty London house.  He feeds her and gives her some dry clothing.  Suddenly the master of the house has returned and the house is definitely shorthanded.  But Grace had done some cooking for her parents, and she steps in to help.The story might be a little simplistic, and there is little in the way of drama -- and only a kiss in the way of passion.  But the story was good, as was the writing.I definitely recommend this one.