![]() ![]() Since all the servants had left since Isabel could no longer afford to keep them, she opened her home as a sort of half-way house/secret haven for abused, neglected, or down-on-their luck women. ![]() The Earl had abandoned his family (a wife, Isabel, and young son) some 7 years before to live a life filled with scandal, and now that both he and his wife have died, beautiful, brave, and strong Isabel is left alone to run their sorely neglected, run down estate and to raise her young 10 year-old-brother to be the next Earl of Reddich. Lady Isabel is the daughter of the Earl of Reddich, a gambling, good-time-Charlie sorry excuse for a husband and father, thought of by Isabel as the "Wastrearl". Met while he saved her from being run down in the streets by a team of horses in a small village in Yorkshire. After starting just a wee bit slow for me, this book took off around chapter 3, when the heroine, 24-year-old Lady Isabel TownsendĪnd the hero (don't know his age, just know that he was one mighty fine physical specimen), Lord Nicholas St. ![]()
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