Book three-hundred: In Your Arms Again

In Your Arms Again (2004)
Kathryn Smith

Kathryn Smith writes really, really good stories of lost love reunited.

This cover makes me giggle.

Try as she might, Lady Octavia Vaux-Daventry cannot make herself fall in love with her groom-to-be. But a marriage to one of society's wealthiest noblemen will provide her a life so unlike her impoverished London childhood, and fulfill the promise she made to her grandfather so long ago.

So it is more than inconvenient when the man who once possessed her heart bursts back into her world - at the request of her betrothed - and restarts a fire she thought was extinguished. Having earned a reputation as society's favorite criminal investigator, former Bow Street Runner North Sheffield cannot believe Octavia is the woman he's been hired to protect. If anything, she is more desirable than the day they were forced to separate - and even more unwilling to let the passion that still flares between them break the promises she must keep. But North is determined - not only will he do anything to keep his lost love safe, but he will risk it all to get her back into his arms again.

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Thursday 21/2/08

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Book one-sixty-three: For the First Time

For the First Time (2003)
Kathryn Smith

Rating: 2.75/5

Quite good.

Except I didn’t like how some of the stuff towards the end played out. I was surprised how easily she (well, they all) forgave Carny for it. I would have had him arrested. Seriously, he should have been.

I think this is the second in a series. I haven’t read the first, but you can’t really tell.

Devlin Ryland returned from Waterloo a celebrated war hero, but he would rather forget the war and all the things he did in the name of duty. Blythe Christian knows all too well the things men are capable of in war – like betraying their betrothed. While neither can deny the attraction between them, both must learn to trust again, Devlin with his secrets and Blythe with her heart. Only then will either of them know the healing power of love.

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Finished: Thursday 13/9

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