Overall: 3.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔 
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑  
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥
Humor: Just a bit
Perspective: Third person perspective from both the hero and the heroine

Should I read in order? 
You don’t have to – but the series has 7 lovely novellas featuring diverse characters so I highly recommend picking them all up!

Basic plot:
Juliana is told by her guardians she must choose a husband herself by the end of the season, or marry a distasteful man 3 times her age. Colin, the man who broke her heart 4 years ago, champions to help her find a husband.

Give this a try if you want:
- London setting
- Regency (1817)
- Second chance romance
- Novella length
- Diversity featured – black heroine (British father/free woman of color from Jamaica mother) with a hearing impairment
- Bargain/repentance  – hero wants to atone for his actions to he says he will help her find a husband
- Lower steam – 1 full scene
-Prodigal hero returns after 4 years away


My thoughts:
I really enjoyed a lot about this story and I would definitely try more from Gabrielle Carr, as this was my first by her. I loved the Juliana and was really rooting for her happiness throughout the story. Colin, well, I enjoyed him but we’ll say that I thought his reasoning for doing what he did was bologna and I wouldn’t have forgiven him nearly as easy! 

I do wish a bit more had been spent on featuring Juliana’s deafness as it kind of stopped being mentioned half way through the book or so (I have a son with speech apraxia and we are learning sign language and I have a friend with a deaf son and I just love seeing that featured in HR!)

Overall, a pleasant little novella!


Content Warnings:

Small scene with a PTSD episode triggered by fireworks
Brief mentions of racism/albeism (implying no one would marry the heroine due to her darker coloring/deafness)

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

80% - kisses, missionary