Customer Reviews
Entertaining, but really basic research errors made. - By: LEP, 16 May 2007 
I enjoyed this book up until the explanations are made of what actuallly happened eleven years ago. Those explanations are so far-fetched as to be ludicrous & somewhat spoilt the book for me.
I'm also amazed that an author of the standing of Johanna Lindsey should have made such basic errors when it came to English hereditory rights & entail. I'm no expert, but even I picked it up straight away & then looked it up on the Internet just to make sure.
1.Under English law a heritory title usuallly passes through the male line & normallly would neither be inherited by a daughter or her son (there was apparently one rare exception to this made by Parliament to the Duke of Malborough). So, there was no way that Margaret's son would inherit her father's title. 2. Entail - the original entailed estate given with the title would pass to the nearest male relative of the male line as with the title e.g. a distant cousin or even an uncle.So "White Oaks...the entailed manor of the Earls of Millwright" would not pass into the "possession" of Margaret, a daughter.
Other property could also be entailed by the owner & by Regency times these entails had to be renewed by each succeeding owner. However, these entails would also pass down the male line.
I would have thought that a young Regency aristocratic lady would not keep using the word "bloody" as freely as Margaret does. Also, nit-picking here, I do wish American authors would realise that we British do not use the word "falll" for Autumn, its an Americanism that ought to be picked up by the publisher's proof reader. Margaret was supposed to be English in origin, not American.
All the criticism above sounds as if I didn't like the book & in fact I did. However, it would have been vastly improved by better research & a better final reason for what happened eleven years ago. Bearing in mind that the man in question was supposed to be a best, childhood friend,plus the involvement of his brother, this part just does not sit right.
Disappointing - By: Anna Oxford, 07 May 2006 
I've read most of her other books & must say that in recent years they have seriously dropped in quality. This is the worst yet - preposterous storyline, two-dimensional characters & sloppy period research. Give this one a miss!
Refeshing after long time - By: T. Oksanen, 03 Apr 2006 As someone who owns alll of her earlier books until I stopped reading them it was great to find a nice romance in form of this book. The plot sounded good when I saw this book & luckily it held until the end. There wasn't a moment where I got fed up like usuallly happens with this gendre books for me.
A little disappointing! - By: , 05 Feb 2006 I have to admit to some disappointment with this book. It lacked the sparkle of other Lindsey novels, & lacked the punch of the Malllory series. However despite this I will always buy any Lindsey book because normallly she can't be beaten. I hope her next one recaptures the old magic.
