Review: ...for $0.99 and less than 70 pages you expect Dostoevsky?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2012
I enjoyed this novella.  You have an older woman of the Regency period escorting her nieces.  An encounter with a beau of her own youth (a decade past) is demoralizing because he is now looking to court one of her nieces.  Her anger and bitterness are written down in a letter and hidden under a rock.  Later she realizes that perhaps she was a bit hasty and shouldn't have let the letter out into the world.  Too late, it's been found and there is a reply to her instead.The hero is also heartbroke though he seems past his anger and bitterness and lives with his grandmother who is an invalid.  He essentially took a musketball or shrapnel to his face and has given up all hope of even going out into society.  He finds her letter and answers, seeing it, at first, as a light entertainment or a flirtation that can never really be or perhaps merely answering the anger and bitterness he sees in the letter and knows that the unknown writter can rise above it.She describes herself in one letter and learns of his appearance from the shallow ex-beau who is oddly disappointed that she doesn't respond to his flirts (even though he's only trying to get closer to the nieces) -- after all, she is a spinster.  So I could forgive them falling in love without seeing each other.I understood the motivations of everyone, was mildly entertained by the story and got my "Awwwh" HEA.Well worth the $0.99.