Review: A Promise of More
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
I'm not sure that this book deserves a three; it got very boring before I finished it. Sebastian Hawkestone is a man that drives the women crazy with his good looks and expert lovemaking. He doesn't intend to fall in love or marry. That changes when he meets Beatrice Hennessey's brother in a duel (over a woman) and the man is killed, but not by Sebastian's bullet. Sebastian is cleared of the crime but he spends the rest of the book looking for the killer. Beatrice and her family are without funds since her brother's death and she tells Sebastian he owes them; apparently his conscience gets hold of him and he marries her so that he can take care of her and her family. He sees Beatrice as not an exceptionally pretty woman and definitely not one he can fall in love with but someone to have his heirs. He changes his mind later because she becomes quite attractive to him and he to her. He still plans to have liaisons outside marriage but he expects Beatrice to be faithful. Talk about a double standard. He becomes very possessive of Beatrice and she is jealous of the women she believes he is still with and this is the prevailing theme. She does keep secrets from him which adds to his suspicious nature but she wants him to love her because she knows "every woman in England" wants him. I was thankful when the book ended because I was nearing the point of not finishing it.