Dear Ms Mullins,
This is a book I really wanted to like. I enjoyed the hero and the heroine. I liked them individually and I liked them together. I liked watching them interact and grow to understand each other as well as love each other. Unfortunately, the whole nobleman spy for England thing has been done to death and the book was scattered with secondary characters whom I found difficult to like or who didn’t make much sense.
Simon Severton, Earl of Devingham decides to kill a few birds with one stone by wooing, proposing to then marrying Lucy Heathpot (what is it with these names?). She’s a nice country lass who grew up near his estates, she knows the people, she’ll be happy to stay in the country, bear his children thus perpetuating the line and she’ll keep marriage minded mommas from continuing to hurl their daughters at him. It helps that he likes Lucy and found, to his delight, that she responded warmly to him on their marriage night. When his duty to the Crown is done, hopefully in a few short months, he happily plans to return to his …
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