This book contains:

• Descriptions and references to rape
• Descriptions of physical assault, with one or more instances of it resulting in the death of others
• Forced marriage.

Emily has grown up wealthy and with the knowledge that she’d one day must marry Nicholas, her father’s business partner’s son. While she doesn’t want to marry him, she’s determined to ensure her children have the life her father worked so hard to ensure she could enjoy.

Will has travelled to Bath on a quest for revenge against the man he believes killed his mother. While he’s dedicated to being kind to others, and living as an honest man, he also wants to protect any woman who might be in a similar position to his mother when she died.

Will puts himself in Emily’s path for the purpose of continuing his revenge plan, and in the process discovers a woman he wasn’t expecting. As they spend more and more time together, they discover an attraction that’s impossible to fight, despite knowing they can’t be together.

This will-they-won’t-they romance has you hanging on right until the end.

If Emily chooses Will, then she faces some consequences that she’s not sure she can face. That impossible choice is something many of us can resonate with. But with every detail we learn that choice becomes one that’s harder and harder for us to process and accept.

You’re left on the edge of your seat as the drama builds, wondering how it’s going to play out and what could possibly happen to secure Emily’s future. Even until the end, while I hoped for the ending that happened, the way in which is played out was not one that I’d thought of.

But, given the drama that happens throughout the book, it’s not one I’d re-read when I need a light-hearted romance. It’s not bad, but if you’re not in a frame of mind to be able to process those themes, they could be too heavy to enjoy the broader story.

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