Author: Sabrina Jeffries
Original Title: A Lady Never Surrenders
Release Year: 2012
Literary Genre: Romance
Setting: England, regency
Series: 5° of The Hellions of Halstead Hall series
Vote: 10/10
I truly liked it, beautiful story,
engaging implications, very well organised mystery and, at least for
me, not that obvious and last but not least the characters are
wonderful and charming.
Now, as always, I firstly read the last
of the series and now, I'm definitely going through the others
(probably not following the correct order), I most certainly love
Celia and Jackson but I must say I found the rest of the principal
characters quite interesting and catching too, especially the Sharpe
family's males, see Gabriel (To wed a wild lord).
Celia Sharpe is the youngest of the
Marquesses of Stoneville's five children, her parents are both dead
several years before, in what is thought to be an homicide/suicide:
the former marchioness would have murdered her faithless husband and
then she would have killed herself.
Celia has a recurring recollection
about that sad night twenty years earlier, when she was five: she was
ill and sleepy because of the medicines and she casually eavesdropped
a quarrel between her parents, shortly before their death. Celia
hasn't never seriously thought about it, believing it was just a
child dream or imagination and she keeps thinking that way until the
Bow street runner Jackson Pinter, employed by her older brother
Oliver (the present Marquess) to find out the truth about their
parents' departure, discovers some important news about the incident.
These discoveries make Celia believes that maybe that unforgettable
dream is, in truth, real.
