Dear Ms. Williamson,
For my inaugural review for Dear Author, I thought it would be nice to review an old favorite (my thinking being that then I wouldn’t have to sharpen my claws right away).
Having been reminded of my fondness for “outsider” romances by a recent read (Meredith Duran’s excellent The Duke of Shadows), I thought of your 1995 romance, set in Cornwall at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Once in a Blue Moon is a sterling example of this type of pairing, and has long been one of my all-time favorite romances to boot.
Jessalyn Letty is just sixteen, red-haired, awkward and a bit of a wild child when she meets McCady Trelawny, the newest Earl of Caerhays. McCady has inherited the title following the deaths of his dissolute older brothers, and there are those who think that he is destined to go down the same path: gambling, drinking, whoring and ultimately, suicide.
But McCady has some unexpected dimensions. He is a rake and a hellion, yes, but he’s also an inventor, and when he comes to the village in Cornwall where Jessalyn lives with her grandmother, he is working …
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