Review: Take This Lord......You Will Want to Keep Him for Yourself :)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2013
Cheryl Bolen has a talent for making even the most tortured and broken man an irresistible hero.  George, the Earl of Sedgewick, is no exception.  We get to know George in the earlier books in this series and see him happily married.  But then the unthinkable happens:  his beloved wife dies in childbirth.Blaming the newborn for killing his beloved, George separates himself from his young son and wants nothing to do with him.  He focuses on his daughter, who is the splitting image of her mother and a source of comfort.  But not much comfort is to be had for the devastated lord, and he leaves his country manor and heads to Bath to drink and debauch himself into oblivion.Worried about her brother, George's meddling sister suggests it is time for him to take another wife.  If not for him, he should at least think of the children.  And she just so happens to have the perfect suggestion:  Sally Spencer, a life-long friend, and someone who is already attached to his adorable little offspring.  Rather plain and lanky, Miss Spencer doesn't have any other real prospects except for an odious old man that her brother wished to shackle her to for money.  What would she have to lose?  After all, it could be a marriage in name only.  More like an acquisition of a step mother for his children than the addition of a wife.Sally is floored by George's offer.  Since the first moment Sally laid eyes on him years ago she had been in love with the handsome brother of her friend.  But he never noticed her---and married another.  She felt bad begrudging him his happiness when he started a family and moved on---without her.  Then she lamented seeing him destroy himself after his wife's death.  Never one to mince words, Sally told George exactly what she thought about the way he was wasting his life.  But the moment he offered to "sacrifice" himself in order to gain someone to care for his children, she thought he might be actually open to the idea of welcoming his young son into his life.  If she could just try.....it would be worth living with and loving a man that didn't love her back.But as she takes control of his household and his children, George begins to see there may be more to "Sensible Sally" than he first though.  Even her tall, thin frame and straight-as-straw hair begins to grow on him....This is a wonderful book and a great addition to the series.  Yes, bad things happen.  Characters must overcome much to finally find their way to true love.  But isn't love worth it?