This was a novella, so there’s not enough to really get to know the characters. Because he loves her (after knowing her for several days) and she figures out she loves him too. Jack knows how to get Beatrice out of her grief and runs roughshod over her coping mechanisms and her feelings. Unfortunately, that’s the main plot at work here. And of course the heroine eventually falls for him, because He Was Right! (I think I just sprained something rolling my eyes). That’s the one where the hero decides that he knows what is best for the heroine to deal with and doesn’t bother to listen to her or just run roughshod over her feelings/concerns/etc. I read a lot of romance novels, and while most of them don’t set my teeth on edge, there is one trope that irritates me to no end and makes it hard for me to read a book – and sometimes even finish it. Can she let go of her past and let love prevail? Jack Emerson appears on her doorstep one night, bleeding from a gunshot wound. Lady Beatrice Tumbley hasn’t gone outside since her husband was killed two years before, earning her the sobriquet “Mad Lady Bea”.
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