November is Victorian romances month on Historical Romance
Review (as well as Romance Trilogies month). I’m beginning with a debut romance
author’s first story, a delightful romance set in Victorian England in 1860.
It’s the story of Miss Sylvia Stafford, daughter of a
baronet and a sought after beauty in her first season. But when her father
committed suicide, she is cut by her friends and forced to become a governess.
Silvia is happy in her work but misses the life she had.
One day, the sister of the man she once
loved, a colonel serving in India, shows up to plead with Silvia to come to visit
her brother to save him from despair. Colonel Sebastian Conrad, now the Earl of
Radcliffe, is horribly disfigured from a sepoy’s saber, and hides away at his estate
in Hertfordshire.
From the beginning, it is clear these two
people are in love, but each believes betrayed by the other. Given the title of
the book, I assumed it had to do with a lost letter and a misunderstanding,
which proved correct.
A well-written story, the chemistry
between the characters is good, the emotions well developed and the secondary
characters (Sebastian’s valet and his sister) delightful. And, importantly, all
comes right in the end.
Hello, thank you for the review. I went to Amazon but it didn't come up. Did you mean the author Mimi Matthews or did you indeed mean Victoria Cornwall??
ReplyDeleteAmy, thanks so much for catching that error! I was preparing two posts at once and the next one is by Victoria Cornwall. I have corrected it.
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