This was a fun read – after I got past all of the age references. The young woman is totally oblivious to the fact that they must now marry or she will be totally ruined. With good reason, he never plans to marry or have children, and yet, he’s been knocked out, kidnapped, and now he is on the Great North Road with a beautiful young woman who has him tied up and at her mercy.
Just suffice it to say, if any of us had been through what he has, we’d probably go off the deep end as well. I won’t tell you all of it because that would spoil the book’s revelations for you. Godrick Fleming, Earl of Visel, heir to the Duke of Tyndale, has had a horrendous time of it over the last few years. Of course, nothing in any of that scenario could go wrong – right? She seems to have forgotten that the man was a soldier for over a dozen years and is pretty resourceful himself. She’ll just kidnap him and take him north somewhere and strand him so that her step-brother and his family will already be out of London by the time he makes it back to London. When Eva learns the villain is still after her step-brother and his new wife, she makes a plan to thwart him. Headstrong, heedless, and reckless don’t even begin to describe her, but she is also strong, resilient, resourceful, brave, and totally loyal to those she loves. She’s drop-dead gorgeous – and would argue with a fence post. I know page time is limited in a book, but I would have loved to see a short scene, maybe in the epilogue or perhaps the last chapter, where he approaches Dru and Gabriel to apologize and ask for their forgiveness.Įva de Courtenay is one of those bright, energetic, fun-loving, dedicated people who just make you tired by being around her (think of the Energizer bunny). He definitely wasn’t redeemed at that point, but it was a great beginning and as we slowly learn the reasons for his actions, we also come to understand the pain that caused him to go off the deep end. Actually, I like the way the author handled the redemption – he sort of ‘awoke’ and realized what he’d done and even what he was still planning to do. In the first one percent of the book, it seems our hero had a complete personality transplant and became filled with remorse over what he’d previously done. Sometimes authors manage to redeem a character spectacularly – and sometimes they don’t, so I was anxious to see how this redemption would go. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I learned that the villain from the previous book, Notorious, is the hero in this book. Period: Regency -1816 London and points north
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