![]() This thoroughly charming Regency Romance, originally published in 1999 and now re-issued in digital formats, features a type of hero rarely found in historical romance. This book is beautifully written and I would recommend it to everyone who loves sweet historical romance. There is great lessons in this book like "Don't judge a book by it's Cover". She learns to look at the character of a person and not just their looks and origins. As the story progresses she sees that her husband is not what he seems. She is haughty and snobbish to her new husband and wants nothing to do with him. ![]() ![]() The heroine cannot believe her father is making her marry the low born miller. The heroine's father is a duke who is financial straits and when the hero offers the duke $75,000 pounds for his daughers hand in marriage the duke accepts. He sees the heroine at the theater and falls instantly in love. ![]() He is not handsome or refined and his taste in clothes is awful. When the story opens he now owns the mill and is a very rich man. The hero is a working class man who grew up in a workhouse and eventually was sold to a mill owner. ![]() This is not a typical historical romance in as it is not about two protagonists from the same social enviornment. Read this book on the recommendation in the forward by Mary Balogh, who is one of my favorite authors. ![]()
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