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

Should I read in order?
This is the third book of Kilpack’s Mayfield Family series but I found it fine as a standalone.

Basic plot:
Sabrina comes across Harry after he’s been attacked by immoral money lenders and nurses him back to health.

Give this a try if you want:
- Both characters have a bit of anxiety
- Independent heroine – she inherited much upon her husband’s death and uses it for good within society
- Emotionally strong hero (hero cries)
- Chess!
- This is a Christian no sex romance – there are scenes of Bible reading and prayer
- Heroine nurses hero back to health
- Light touch of second chance – the hero has an empathetic encounter with the heroine 6 years prior (he’s going off with another woman and the heroine is married here so it wasn’t anything sexual)

My thoughts:
This one really isn’t my thing – I’m not looking for Christian romance – and I didn’t realize that it was when I picked it up. Generally I liked the writing quite a bit. But overall the themes of ‘vices’ needing to be overcome, the amount of warm milk drank, and the praying and Bible reading made this one not something I seek out in romance.

I am still a bit confused about everyone calling the heroine a lady, even though she’s a bastard. It seemed a bit far stretched how it was just accepted. I did like both main characters quite a bit though. And I loved that in this one the heroine was in a place of security after what she’d been through and was in a position to help the hero. I think those looking for a low steam read about healing could really love this novel.

Content warnings:

- Heroine’s first marriage is filled with hurt, physical violence, and verbal abuse
- Heroine miscarries (remembered, not on page)
- Hero suffers from alcoholism and a gambling addiction and there’s quite a bit of page time recovery
- Mention of hero’s uncle making his fortune in India
- Heroine is thought to be infertile after her miscarriage (told by a doctor)

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

82% - kiss