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bandherbooks 's review for:
The Raven Prince
by Elizabeth Hoyt
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I love historical widow romances so much. Anna is 31 years old, and lives with her MIL and a woman they've hired as a maid, but who is really their ward. Anna runs afoul of the new Earl in town (he knocks her down on accident with his horse), and detests him on sight. He's big, burly, and scarred by the pox that killed the rest of his family as a boy.
Needing funds, Anna manages to get a job as the Earl's secretary from his lively dressed steward while the Earl is out on business. The Earl is one grumpy bugger, but Anna really needs the work.
Sparks fly. Anna wants the Earl, and is grumpy when she discovers one of the Earl's bills (a monthly fee for a bordello called Aphrodite's Grove). Anna and her MIL also rescue a sex worker who is badly hurt after men accost her (at the risk of being shunned by their fellow townspeople). Anna is rewarded by the woman's sister, a high class mistress who has access to London and Aphrodite's Grotto.
Anna is snuck in when the Earl has planned a visit there, and they share two nights of extreme passion (she's masked, and he doesn't know - they don't even talk).
The Earl feels bad though, because he also has feelings for Anna (he even bought her roses for her small garden - too many to fit).
Eventually the Earl discovers he has slept with her, they have some conflict involving, and he ends up coming back to her on his knees begging for her hand.
I was disappointed in the ending, because he promises he doesn't care that "she cannot have children" (she thinks she is barren because she never conceived with her dead husband), but of course there is a baby epilogue (they have many children).
I love historical widow romances so much. Anna is 31 years old, and lives with her MIL and a woman they've hired as a maid, but who is really their ward. Anna runs afoul of the new Earl in town (he knocks her down on accident with his horse), and detests him on sight. He's big, burly, and scarred by the pox that killed the rest of his family as a boy.
Needing funds, Anna manages to get a job as the Earl's secretary from his lively dressed steward while the Earl is out on business. The Earl is one grumpy bugger, but Anna really needs the work.
Sparks fly. Anna wants the Earl, and is grumpy when she discovers one of the Earl's bills (a monthly fee for a bordello called Aphrodite's Grove). Anna and her MIL also rescue a sex worker who is badly hurt after men accost her (at the risk of being shunned by their fellow townspeople). Anna is rewarded by the woman's sister, a high class mistress who has access to London and Aphrodite's Grotto.
Anna is snuck in when the Earl has planned a visit there, and they share two nights of extreme passion (she's masked, and he doesn't know - they don't even talk).
The Earl feels bad though, because he also has feelings for Anna (he even bought her roses for her small garden - too many to fit).
Eventually the Earl discovers he has slept with her, they have some conflict involving, and he ends up coming back to her on his knees begging for her hand.
I was disappointed in the ending, because he promises he doesn't care that "she cannot have children" (she thinks she is barren because she never conceived with her dead husband), but of course there is a baby epilogue (they have many children).