Perfectly sublime!
Someone Perfect (Westcott #9) by Mary Balogh
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So I finished reading this with a soppy smile on my face, exhausted from trying to remember all the various members of the involved families.
And that’s what this story is about. Families, loss, hurt, misunderstandings, forgiveness and gain. A mystery threads throughout covered with lies and revealed with truth.
Justin Wiley, Earl of Brandon was banished from home at twenty-two. Years later, without reconciliation to the father he adored, he finds himself the Earl of a place he doesn’t feel comfortable in. Too many memories!
His half-sister and his step-mother have repaired to another property, Prospect Hill in East Sussex, after his father’s death. His stepmother (a piece of work!) was ill and eventually died. His half sister Maria has been living with her governess turned companion. It’s well past her time of mourning. As Maria’s companion is under thirty she’s regarded as unchaperoned. Justin decides that it’s time for Maria to return to Eversleigh Park in Hertfordshire, and to take up her role as an Earl’s daughter, in preparation for her introduction to society.
Whilst at Prospect Hill he comes across Lady Estelle Lamar and her twin Bertrand, Viscount Watley. They are related to the Westcott’s. Justin has acquaintanceship with Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby, whose a roundabout relation of the twins. When I say come across. He and his dog Captain, literally do come across Estelle by a stream enroute to his sister’s home.
Estelle is waiting for someone perfect to marry—of course with blue eyes. That rules out the Earl, a big man with a broken nose and work worn hands. No blue eyes here!
Justin asks the twins to come to Eversleigh as a support for his sister. They agree. He also asks family on his father’s side and his stepmother’s side to come and meet Maria.
The story goes on from there. Maria finds out more about her mother and her brother. The brother she’d adored before he’d been banished.
I could mention Wesley Mort and his family, a stone cutter and Justin’s best friend. Or Ricky, Wesley’s brother. But I won’t except in passing. These are important connections though!
A warm hearted story that begins with varying tensions eventually resolved, not without pain, and with Family playing a huge part.
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