Review: Great Historic Romance: Sweet, Witty, Romantic, Original
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2013
The writing is excellent: flowing, descriptive, and literate, without being boring.  Without being too fussy, she manages to capture the customs and language of the early eighteen hundreds.  The hero, heroine and secondary characters are believable, three dimensional and likable. Even the editing is excellent; I found no typos, missing or mis-used words, wonky fonts or other annoyances.The story involves Lucas, a young and foolish hero who, drunk and disoriented on the eve of his shipping off to war, crawls into the wrong bed.  Instead of the lusty flirt he expected, he finds Sophie, the timid, shy and extremely young heroine.  She screams, they are discovered by her guardian, shotgun wedding ensues.  Hero leaves in a drunken huff for the Napoleonic Wars, grows up considerably and finally comes home, after six years. At the first ball he attends upon his return, he spies a gorgeous hottie from across the room. He does not even realize that the beautiful belle of the ball is his own wife. What he also does not realize is the estate and title that he recently inherited from his estranged brother is deeply in debt and his wife has inherited a huge fortune of her own. As Lucas starts to woo his wife for her money, he begins to find that she is not the heartless and unprincipled hussy he thought he married. Will his growing liking, respect and (you guessed it!) love for Sophie be enough to win her guarded heart?  What do you think?