They are not perfect and have to overcome a lot of obstacles (including Alistair's return to the Peninsula war) to reach their very satisfying HEA. Both Alistair and Anna are complex and vulnerable characters. Anna is desperate to reunite with Henry but could only count on very short visits, if any, depending on the mood of her brother-in-law, Henry's guardian. They pocketed her dowry, used it to re-establish themselves and took her son Henry away. Her late husband and his family treated Anna badly. The woman, beautiful Anna Morris, is a daughter of tradesman and a widow of a titled man. The fight ended when a woman and her little boy came too close. One of the provocations ended up with him fighting his cousin in London park. Alistair, the jilted hero from Fairchild, is still smarting from it and little provocation could set him reeling. Fairchild was a very good book and this book is even better. This book is a sequel to Fairchild and you probably want to read the first book to fully appreciate the sequel. I have downloaded this & may read at some point & see if reading in order gives me a more positive experience. The first part Fairchild is free on kindle at the moment. I do admit skimming the last few pages, because I just didn't care about these people & I felt the author had become bored with them too. Although this part of the story is interesting when Anna reunites with him bringing her four year old son into a war zone the final third of the book becomes farcical & features some convenient tidying up of loose ends.
This has the characters too much apart - although the love letter Alistair writes is very pretty. There has obviously been some solid research into the times.but unfortunately Alistair is sent off to war again. The middle section was pretty good, (other some lapses into modern speech). This is unfortunate as the plot of this book was quite original.
& I found Anna, Alistair & Henry very unlikable at the start of the book. I had to go on Goodreads to read the blurb for Fairchild to make sense of the first third of the novel. I know reading the second in the series before reading the first isn't altogether fair - but most of my life I have read books out of series order & they should make more sense than this. It has been on my kindle for a while, but I decided to read it while on holiday. However, I picked up this book through Bookbub.
Although she is still on my friend's list I haven't "spoken" to her in quite some time. I met (& liked very much) Jaima near the start of my time on GR.
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