Dear Ms. Kleypas:
Some have told me that Seduce Me at Sunrise was as good as Kleypas’ penultimate book, Dreaming of You, featuring Derek Craven and Sara Fielding. The book had some similar underpinnings with the hero being of the lower class with a grotesque background who feels completely unworthy to be loved by the heroine, a gently bred young woman. What I thought was similar was the strong emotional connection between Merripen and Win, the leads in Seduce Me at Sunrise.
There’s a papable physical attraction, but even more than that is the fierce emotional ties that bind them.
Win says to Merripen:
I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night I long to tell you so many things, but I am not free yet I hope to be well enough someday to shock you again, with far more pleasing results.
Merripen thinks of Win:
Because it wasn’t hers to give.
Your heart is mine, he thought savagely. It belongs to me.
Winnifred was struck by scarlet fever and while she …
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