Such a pleasurable read!
Someone to Honor (Wescott Family #6) by Mary Balogh
And now it's Abby Westcott's story!
Although a different take, the trope was familiar. The Waterloo and Peninsula Campaign veteran, a hero with a past. The emotionally wounded young woman who's at last coming to grips with who she is. A problem or two to be solved and a rather startling solution.
Both leading characters are making momentous decisions that will come around but the getting there is tricky. Of course there's a problem or two to be solved! Somehow!
Some quite delightful scenes, Abigail Westcott mistaking her wounded brother Harry's friend, Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Bennington, for a servant chopping wood and displaying a scarred but splendid torso, the rambunctious but endearing dog 'beauty', the amazingly secretive meeting of Aunt Matilda (Lady Matilda Westcott) with someone she has previously known (therein lies a story!), the solid beauty of Abigail inside and out, the Westcott clan en mass, and of course Avery always lurking in a corner with something decisive if not slightly cynical to say.
I loved this story. All pure Balogh with its overtones of Georgette Heyer and a smattering of Grace Burrowes.
A solid Regency romance that's delightful in its execution with just the right amount of tension.
A Berkley Group ARC via NetGalley
****
And now it's Abby Westcott's story!
Although a different take, the trope was familiar. The Waterloo and Peninsula Campaign veteran, a hero with a past. The emotionally wounded young woman who's at last coming to grips with who she is. A problem or two to be solved and a rather startling solution.
Both leading characters are making momentous decisions that will come around but the getting there is tricky. Of course there's a problem or two to be solved! Somehow!
Some quite delightful scenes, Abigail Westcott mistaking her wounded brother Harry's friend, Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Bennington, for a servant chopping wood and displaying a scarred but splendid torso, the rambunctious but endearing dog 'beauty', the amazingly secretive meeting of Aunt Matilda (Lady Matilda Westcott) with someone she has previously known (therein lies a story!), the solid beauty of Abigail inside and out, the Westcott clan en mass, and of course Avery always lurking in a corner with something decisive if not slightly cynical to say.
I loved this story. All pure Balogh with its overtones of Georgette Heyer and a smattering of Grace Burrowes.
A solid Regency romance that's delightful in its execution with just the right amount of tension.
A Berkley Group ARC via NetGalley
****
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