I confess I already loved the heroine, Letitia, and the hero, Turner, before I started this book. That is because they featured so much in the prequel, 'The Game and the Governess.' While I read that novel, I wanted more of Letitia and Turner. I'd seen them fall in love in that other novel and liked them very much.
Having said that, The Lie and The Lady works well as a stand-alone and you do not need to read the prequel novel to enjoy this one. However, I'm guessing that knowledge of 'The Game and the Governess' helped me love these characters quickly despite that Letitia appeared mercenary at first.
The Lie and the Lady builds over time so that it is in the last 40% or so that the clues and events in the first chunk of the book all come together. In the last 1/3 of this book, I decided that I loved it.
The build-up to admissions of love, kissing and other intimacies was so good that at a mere touch, or kiss, heat bloomed from my heart outward through my chest. That response took me by surprise and I loved that this book could do that.
I felt there was a good balance of Letitia and Turner being together on the page and apart, especially because of Letitia's circumstances.
The one who needed to find her true self and where she belonged was Letitia, and I felt she did an admirable job of 'waking up' in the time given to her in the book. I admired Turner for not interfering in Letitia's plans for her future, or pushing her in any way to do what he wanted, and how he waited for her to know herself and accept him. I found him an honourable character.
I enjoyed the secondary characters too, whether likeable or evil, and I am looking forward to this author's next novel, hoping it will be about Margaret and Rhys.
I felt this novel was well researched and enjoyed it thoroughly. It boggles my mind that the author wrote this while nursing a newborn baby. What a woman!
*contains sex scenes
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