Douglas (Lonely Lords #8) by Grace Burrowes-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 7, 2014

Douglas Allen needs a home for his aching heart…

Douglas Allen, Viscount Amery, hates having arrived to his title without knowing how to manage what few properties he has. Guinevere Hollister is a distant family connection raising her daughter, Rose, in rural obscurity and stewarding the estate they live on. At the urging of mutual family, Douglas reluctantly puts himself in Gwen’s hands for lessons in land husbandry and discovers beneath her prickly exterior a woman of passion and honor. Yet despite the closeness they find, she will not marry him.

Guinevere Hollister needs a champion…

When the powerful Duke of Moreland arranges an engagement between Gwen and his heir, Douglas knows the marriage is not what Gwen wants. In Douglas’s eyes, Gwen deserves to make her own choices, even if she chooses continued poverty and disgrace over the love Douglas offers her. Douglas will take on their family, the meddling duke, and Gwen’s own lonely, stubborn heart to ensure his lady’s happiness.

REVIEW

5 out of 5 for this reader folks!

I have decided that I DO NOT want this series to ever end! Hear that Grace Burrowes??? NO END! LOL

I was really looking forward to Douglas’s book as he is one tough cookie to figure out. I didn’t have a connect with him in Andrew’s book, but for some reason he still fascinated me and I was certain by the end of Douglas’s book, Grace Burrowes will have me melting and falling in love! YUP she not only succeeded in that, but made it happen in the first chapter when we experience our socially and a little emotionally inept yet handsome viscount fetch a young girl out of a tree.

So as I mentioned, we meet Douglas in Andrew’s book. He is the ex brother in law to Andrew’s wife, and has a great deal of responsibility placed on his shoulders after some family scandal as come to surface. He is a good man, who wants to succeed and rebuild his families fortunes through good honest work. When he is offered an opportunity to purchase an estate that will be profitable, he seeks out the professional opinion of Andrew’s cousin Gwen (she efficiently works as a steward on her own land and is seriously knowledgeable and successful) and asks her to accompany him to his future estate so she can teach him the tricks of the trade.

Gwen, is quite hesitant to accompany any man (she is seriously heart broken and refuses to ever get involved with another man again), but if it were not for Douglas, her 5 year old daughter Rose may have fallen to her death. Reluctantly she agrees to go with Douglas. Douglas it completely captivated by Gwen and he is curious as to why she has built such high walls around herself. Slowly, these two embark on a journey to self discovery and discovery of each other. Through gentle touch, kind words, arguments, insistence, secrets, danger and down right stubbornness you can believe that these two were made for each other. When you mix in a sweet 5 year old child who is completely smitten with Douglas (and he with her), you will understand why my heart melted.

Of course there is so much more to this story, but you will have to read for yourself to get the nitty gritty. I will say (I am totally biased as Grace Burrowes is one of my absolute fave historical romance authors ..lol) that Grace has a knack for pairing the most perfect personalities together. She also writes her hero’s so damaged that it really does take the perfect heroine to embrace their “crazy”. She doesn’t write dim witted heroines either but women who I can look up to and admire!

Another score in The Lonely Lords series. This series will be a reread (which I rarely do) and a fave “go to” when I need a historical romance fix. I am so looking forward to David’s story.

If you are into historical romance, love multi-layered characters, reading a big brooding man fawn over a 5 year old and a couple bicker and love all in the same sentence then check this book out!

HAPPY READING! 🙂

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Reviewed by Rachel T.