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Following a disastrous Season,
Charity Effington is pleased to go to Bath to stay with her
grandmother. At least there nobody will know her, and she
can do what she likes best all day long, ? play the piano.
To make things even better there is a music festival and Charity
is determined to enter so the more she practices the more
she is likely to win. But her neighbor Baron Cadgwith is staying
in Bath for the more usual reason of recuperating, in his
case from war wounds that have left him scarred and suffering
from migraines. The last thing he wants is a noisy neighbor.
Although
it says that this is the first book in a series, this new
series actually follows on from another called Sealed
With A Kiss. I hadn’t read any of the earlier books
and can assure you that this is a standalone and complete
of itself. If you like your romances pulsing with passion
and steamy with sex this isn’t that type of book; novels
like this are usually categorized as sweet and this is a good
description. Take all the bedroom scenes away and you are
left with more of a plot, and my own favorite part of this
novel was Charity’s friendship with fellow musicians
May and Sophie. The fact that Charity is not just out to Get
Her Man makes her more likeable too, and more appealing to
the modern reader as she is keen to be a serious musician
and composer. Hugh the baron comes over initially as unappealing,
but we soon realize why when we read his back-story. There
is considerable chemistry between the two protagonists, mostly
I think because we get to know them during the book and they
come alive as more than just a pretty debutante and a single
ex-soldier with a title. Regency romances abound with these,
but this pair has a bit more to them. A good start to a new
trilogy.
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