The Infamous Forresters #2
Eliza Lloyd
Historical Romance
Published in 2017
H/h - Lord Joshua Forrester/Lady Charlotte Dunlevee
Setting: Regency.
Read in June, 2017.
My rating:
[might be spoiler-ish]
My Dear Lord Forrester
is a novella and book 2 of Eliza Lloyd’s The Infamous Forresters
series. Honestly, I find no fault in the books of this series that I’ve
read so far, only that I always end up wishing they were full-length
novels instead of novellas.
Book 1, What A Mistress Wants
is the story of the widowed Duke of Sterling, Adam Forrester and his
mistress, Eloisa. Mistress stories don’t always appeal to me, but this
one was an amazing read. It was a novella, but the author packed a lot
of emotions between the pages. Adam and Eloisa had been together for at
least 4yrs. when the story opens so they already have a long history.
However it didn’t feel like I missed too much. Adam was devoted to his
wife, Nellie, until the day she died. He’s got 4 kids, including the
future heir to the Sterling Dukedom. He still misses his wife.
Adam
hopes to remarry one day, but right now, he’s all set with an
adventurous paramour to take care of his more basic needs. He adores
Eloisa and has no intention of giving her up anytime soon. But Eloisa,
who is the daughter of a gentleman fallen on hard times, has something
else in mind. Though their liaison was build on needs based of money and
pleasure—each helping the other out with what they desperately needed
at that time—Eloisa is now hopelessly in love with Adam. However, he’s a
Duke and he’d never marry his mistress. She certainly has no interest
in competing with a ghost for his affection. Just how could she carry on
being his mistress knowing her feelings are not returned? Eloisa
decides she’d have to make a quick decision to whether or not she’d
continue to suffer in silence or put her foot down and do something
about it. To find out what she did and the turn of events, you must give
this novella a try!
Joshua, one of Adam’s younger brothers,
wasn’t mentioned in book 1. But then, he has wanderlust and not always
around. Recently though, he’d returned to London to pay a visit to his
family, especially his mother, after a quite disastrous visit to Paris. My Dear Lord Forrester is based on Joshua’s tale of finding his true love in the most surprising of places, when he wasn’t even looking to find love.
It
all started with a nude painting of a beautiful young lady. She was
being painted from behind, giving every spectator who was there a good
view of her peachy backside. No one saw her face. Joshua wasn’t immune
to her beauty or her lovely behind either. Though he’s no saint, Joshua
was no womanizer either. If nothing, Joshua is known as the Knight in
Shining Armor since he’s always there for any damsel-in-distress he
comes across. And this impulse of his has gotten him into more trouble
that he’d like over the years. His latest foray in Paris where he tried
to save his lover from her abusive husband, earned him a vicious saber
injury. Joshua now regrets getting involved with the woman, not to
mention to try to ‘save her’ when she didn’t want to saved in the first
place. I say it was worthless cause he could’ve been dead but at the
least, he learned a valuable lesson there.
Still recuperating,
Joshua landed home and landed in trouble when he decided he wants to
meet the owner of that lovely backside. Joshua determined that she was
no fallen woman but probably some Lady fallen on hard times. He could
think of several reasons why he’d like to meet her, least of all to find
out what type of danger she’s in having resorted to such drastic
measures to earn money (yep there it was again, that Knightly impulse of
his!). One evening at a ball, Joshua found himself being reacquainted,
then on the dance floor with his neighbor’s 4 daughters; three
unmarried, and one, the eldest, widowed. Joshua has known the sisters
when they were young but he’s since fallen out of contact with often so
far away from home. He hadn’t expected to find the sisters to have grown
into such beauties! It was while dancing with the widow, Charlotte AKA
Char, that Joshua suddenly realizes that she maybe the woman he’s
looking for.......... and the rest is rather a pleasantly done,
beautifully told history. And though his pursuit of Charlotte began as
another ‘rescuing the damsel’ situation, soon it blossomed into
something more and they were head over heels for each-other.
Joshua
and Charlotte’s romance should’ve felt too rushed, too unbelievable for
me as it often happens in a novella, yet I found how surprisingly
comfortable and believable their feelings for one another was. It’s just
one of those things where you know they belong together. There were
less sex scenes than book 1 but I didn’t mind. The only thing I wanted
was to see Joshua and Charlotte together for a few more chapters. Loved
it! 4.5 stars and highly recommended!!
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