I am so glad I read this book. It is my first Alissa Johnson and it really met all my expectations. This book has been garnering some really good reviews and it deserves them. Anna Reese is completely believable as her role as a sheltered, hidden child of an aging courtesan who just wants to escape. She is naive, but extremely well-educated thanks to her governess/companion. It was a shock to me when her actual age is revealed at the end of the book.
Max is the perfect foil for her. He is initially perceived as your typical, not a care in the world lord. Nice, but forgettable. When the story jumps ahead four years, his true character makes itself known and I loved him! He may be the only hero I have ever read who not only quickly realized he was wrong, but also had enough strength of character to seek out Anna and apologize. He had me at I'm sorry.
Now the story has some flaws, which is why I didn't give it five stars. The biggest problem I had was the premise that the daughter of a courtesan would be allowed to wander about her mother's London house for over 25 years and never pressured to marry or worse. I also was a tad skeptical that the family of a Marquess would happily accept their father's illegitimate daughter into their home to live forever. That is until I read the summary of the book about this family that was first in this series. Apparently the current Marquess and his brother have experience in finding and embracing wards of their father who have been neglected. He was a real peach and his second-wife a holy terror. Also, the whole plot-line of her mother wanting her back just seemed crazy.
So, this is a nice story about two normal, lonely people who are perfect for each other. Read it, you won't be sorry.
Definite 4 1/2 Stars !!!!
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