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Amelia was the only bright spot. She was everything we love in a heroine, kind, intelligent, vivacious. After six years, David was still mourning the loss of his beloved wife.

Amelia, abducted by a wastrel, was being taken to Gretna Green. David and Amelia were friends of long standing and he rescued Amelia, marrying her to avoid her ruination. From the outset, David made it clear that he'll only marry to gain a stepmother for his daughter; he and his bride will be friends and companions and Amelia understood this. Okay.

But while I empathized with David for quite a long while, an entire novel's worth of his angst just wore me down. He didn't behave as a friend; he ignored her for days, tried to install her in a bedroom meant for servants, gave her no support when his servants disregarded her. She was shown little simple respect and courtesy by him. IMO Amelia was heroic and had to put up with way too much. Amelia was multi-dimensional. David was rather flat except for the all-consuming grief. That was thoroughly defined. I reached a point where I couldn't stand Katherine (the dear departed) and was pretty sick of David's moping.

There were some sub-plots that seemed so incongruous within the story that they were distracting. A couple were obvious pitches for the next book.

Finally, the ending was very rushed and just too pat. The least satisfying I've read in a long time. I like to finish a romance novel smiling and picturing the characters' happy future. This didn't leave that glow for me. The H was still thinking of the dead wife in the epilogue!


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Undressed by the Earl Secrets in Silk Michelle Willingham 9781477819814 Books Reviews

These are not your soft-core bodice-rippers, with mannered ladies and gentlemen, tea in the parlor and innuendo on the veranda. You will find real sex, real passion, and real hot underwear in these novels!

Of the four books in the Secrets in Silk series, this is the closest to a conventional historical romance. Young Amelia is focused on the handsome Viscount of her dreams, ignoring the counsel of her older sister, her aunt, and the kindly widower, the Earl of Castledon. In fact, she reacts to Castledon's advice with a challenge of her own. She will draw up a list of young women who will serve his need for a stepmother for his daughter, and he will give her a list of men to pursue and to avoid.

Amelia puts her prim sister Margaret's name on the list of prospects for Castledon to consider. Not surprisingly, the Viscount is at the top of Castledon's list to avoid. When the rakish Viscount kidnaps Amelia away to Scotland so they can be married without her parents' consent, Amelia needs to reconsider where her heart (and her passion) lies.
So far, this is my favorite book in the series, probably because of Amelia. The baby of the family, Amelia Andrews is true to the reputation of the youngest sibling. She's a bit flighty, precocious, nosy about secret things, and quick to bend or disobey the rules. In the past her cute innocence has probably gotten her out of several punishments, so she isn't concerned with bending the rules.
At the age of 14 two of Amelia's three sisters were attending balls and parties with hopes of finding a suitable husband. Amelia being too young to participate, she was relegated to spend time at her mother's or aunt's side. British custom forbid her to speak to a man without a chaperone present, and preferably not at all. (Try that today!)
In her own resourceful way, Amelia strikes up an ongoing conversation with David Hartford, the Earl of Castledon, a grieving widower. It would be scandalous for a young lady to be speaking to a gentleman without a chaperone present. Ever creative, Amelia positions herself with her back to the Earl, and talks freely. Wow, does she talk freely. Amelia doesn't seem to stop talking. She's not familiar with embarrassment, sharing her thoughts and feelings without filters. The Earl is only attending the events because he has promised his daughter that he would remarry so she would have a mother.
At 33, David Hartford is 13 years Amelia's senior. His wife has been dead for 6 years, leaving him with a 5-year old daughter (now 11).
Skipping a lot of details here, Amelia was drugged and kidnapped from a ball one evening, right under everyone's nose. Her older sister, Margaret, was charged with her care that event. When she couldn't see her, Margaret enlisted the Earl's help locating her. After realizing she had been captured by an unwanted, womanizing suitor, who needed to marry a heiress to pay off his gambling debts.
Margaret took one route to Scotland and David the other, both knowing a woman could be married there without her father's permission. David found her first, beat the kidnapper, and rescued the damsel-in-distress. British societal norms being what they were, a woman was disgraced after spending a night alone with a man, no matter the circumstance. Of course the Earl agrees to marry her. His stipulations were that it would be a marriage of friendship, sans love, providing a mother for his daughter. Amelia will have his name and a title, a daughter, and enough money to buy whatever she wants. Anything but love that's reserved for his first wife and only love. His grief causes him to often act cold, seem uncaring, and even cruel.
The story has some twists, turns, and surprises, but allows plenty of time for the characters to develop. It's a sweet story, book three of four in the series.
David is a widower Earl with an 11 year old daughter who needs a step-mother. Amelia is a noble's daughter, younger than David, but a good friend. She is 1/2 in love with a rogue viscount and is trying to help match David up with a woman to marry and wants his help in snaring the rogue. They make each other a list of suggestions and the quest is on.
Because they re friends, he tries her suggestions, and she barrels ahead with her ideas. Things come to a head and they end up married.
Nasty twists and turns force them to resolve their differences and move towards a good ending.
Excellent novel by an author who is new to me. She is worth reading. The pace is good, the intrigue suspenseful, and the readers involvement emotionally involved! Look forward to more by this author!
Amelia was the only bright spot. She was everything we love in a heroine, kind, intelligent, vivacious. After six years, David was still mourning the loss of his beloved wife.

Amelia, abducted by a wastrel, was being taken to Gretna Green. David and Amelia were friends of long standing and he rescued Amelia, marrying her to avoid her ruination. From the outset, David made it clear that he'll only marry to gain a stepmother for his daughter; he and his bride will be friends and companions and Amelia understood this. Okay.

But while I empathized with David for quite a long while, an entire novel's worth of his angst just wore me down. He didn't behave as a friend; he ignored her for days, tried to install her in a bedroom meant for servants, gave her no support when his servants disregarded her. She was shown little simple respect and courtesy by him. IMO Amelia was heroic and had to put up with way too much. Amelia was multi-dimensional. David was rather flat except for the all-consuming grief. That was thoroughly defined. I reached a point where I couldn't stand Katherine (the dear departed) and was pretty sick of David's moping.

There were some sub-plots that seemed so incongruous within the story that they were distracting. A couple were obvious pitches for the next book.

Finally, the ending was very rushed and just too pat. The least satisfying I've read in a long time. I like to finish a romance novel smiling and picturing the characters' happy future. This didn't leave that glow for me. The H was still thinking of the dead wife in the epilogue!