Review: excellent!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2013
I loved this book and will read more of this author.  A young women and her siblings leave home when they are worried about their brother's life.  He is the Earl and is nine years old.  His sisters are all older and their parents have died.  The nine year old earl's heir has come to take care of them and has become their guardian.  He is out to kill the earl so that he can have the house etc.  The children sleep in the woods during the day and travel by night to their neighbor's house - the duke's house has been in ruin since his father died and the duke has been out of the country since he did not get along with his father.The children sneak into the house and at the same time the duke has heard some information concerning someone buying up all the land that he comes to investigate and appears at his house and hears people in it.  He find the Earl in one of the rooms and he is quite sick.  The Duke helps him and then goes to investigate the voices of the girls he hears.  He  duke is not always a nice man and has decided the oldest girl will be his mistress, since he is helping the family.  She doesn't understand this at first until later and is a little wary of him, but she does fall in love with him.  It takes him a little longer, but is a very good book.