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Summary: Mystery + Romance
Review: After dueling with a pair of "enchanted" pistols, that have the reputation of leading one to their true love, the tired war veteran, Tony Sheridan finds himself encountering the one woman he has ever truly loved, one he believed to have abandoned him for another. She is now a widow with a young son, who he does not realize is in fact, his, at first. Love is a secondary consideration for both of them, though. Felicity is more concerned with survival, and Tony with finding a murderer. Besides, each feels that the other wronged them.***** This charming, slightly Shakespearean with a touch of Agatha Christy and a dash of Barbara Cartlandt book will charm readers who have followed Ms. King since her delightful first novel. The hero and heroine alike display keen wit and illustrate how love can mend the the unmendable.
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Summary: not that interesting
Review: I have to admit to being disappointed in this story. It had all the makings for a terrific regency/historical love story but failed on many counts. Our heroine, Felicity Merriwether, got pregnant while engaged to be married to Captain Anthony Sheridan, but he left for Spain/France in the Army before knowing she was having a baby. When she wrote to him that she was with child and wanted to come join him, he apparently bled all over her letter so could not make out what she was writing about except that she wanted to come to Spain to join me so he told her to stay in England not knowing why she wanted to come to him instead of waiting. She thought he knew she was pregnant but did not care. Soon after he finds out she married someone else while engaged to him without telling him. Tony finally comes home 6 years later and she is a widow and he is involved in a murder investigation. There really is no sexual tension between them because she, Felicity, refuses to except or understand that Tony did not know she was pregnant. She basically refuses to except his story. Which does not really make any sense - didn't she love him at one time? Was he not trustworthy enough for her to lose her virginity to? Her husband is portrayed in the book at not being a nice guy but didn't he leave her son, Tony's son not his, his money knowing he was not really his son? He was not a noble with entailed lands - a Cit really - so he could do anything he wanted with his money. Might have made more sense for Tony to return to England with Felicity and her son Charles without any funds. The story of Diana/Meg was not that interesting either. Could have been fleshed out more. One of the reasons Felicity keeps giving in not marrying Tony now was that men can be dominating and she does not wish to be dominated and her fear is related to her marriage. Well, there are 2 women in the story who seem to have happy marriages indeed so Felicity can not be so stupid to believe all marriages were like hers.
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Summary: not that interesting
Review: I have to admit to being disappointed in this story. It had all the makings for a terrific regency/historical love story but failed on many counts. Our heroine, Felicity Merriwether, got pregnant while engaged to be married to Captain Anthony Sheridan, but he left for Spain/France in the Army before knowing she was having a baby. When she wrote to him that she was with child and wanted to come join him, he apparently bled all over her letter so could not make out what she was writing about except that she wanted to come to Spain to join me so he told her to stay in England not knowing why she wanted to come to him instead of waiting. She thought he knew she was pregnant but did not care. Soon after he finds out she married someone else while engaged to him without telling him. Tony finally comes home 6 years later and she is a widow and he is involved in a murder investigation. There really is no sexual tension between them because she, Felicity, refuses to except or understand that Tony did not know she was pregnant. She basically refuses to except his story. Which does not really make any sense - didn't she love him at one time? Was he not trustworthy enough for her to lose her virginity to? Her husband is portrayed in the book at not being a nice guy but didn't he leave her son, Tony's son not his, his money knowing he was not really his son? He was not a noble with entailed lands - a Cit really - so he could do anything he wanted with his money. Might have made more sense for Tony to return to England with Felicity and her son Charles without any funds. The story of Diana/Meg was not that interesting either. Could have been fleshed out more. One of the reasons Felicity keeps giving in not marrying Tony now was that men can be dominating and she does not wish to be dominated and her fear is related to her marriage. Well, there are 2 women in the story who seem to have happy marriages indeed so Felicity can not be so stupid to believe all marriages were like hers.
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