Maybe it’s because most of the ones I’ve picked up are so short in length, and I prefer longer novels… who knows?) I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I was hooked almost immediately. (I always think I’m going to dislike regency romances before I start reading them. I have to admit, I really didn’t think I’d like it when I realized it was a regency. A couple days later she handed me a copy of this book. Balogh… when I said I hadn’t, she said I really should give her novels a try, and promised to look through her stock and find something really good for me to read. I was discussing favorite authors with a friend of mine (the owner of a local second-hand bookstore) one day, and she asked if I’d ever read anything by Ms. I was familiar with her name, but had never so much as read the back cover of one of her books. This is the first book I ever read by Mary Balogh.
If only she knew that Hartley is secretly Lord Carew, and that he hides more than extraordinary wealth: a passionate secret held deep in his heart that only her love can reveal.This review was originally published on Goodreads on February 3, 2011. In the midst of her heartbreak, she seeks solace from her new friend, the disabled gardener Hartley Wade. Jennifer's cousin Samantha Newman is smarting after she too is toyed with by Lord Kersey.
Jennifer has no idea that she is just a pawn in the long-simmering feud between these two headstrong, irresistible men-or that she will become a prize more valuable than revenge. Suddenly, she becomes the quarry of London's most notorious womanizer, Gabriel Fisher, the Earl of Thornhill.
Jennifer Winwood has been engaged for five years to a man she hardly knows but believes to be honorable and good: Lord Lionel Kersey. From New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh come two classic tales of love turned dangerous, set amid the splendor of Regency England-a time rife with passion, betrayal, and intrigue.
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