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Summary: I think I like "Fate".
Review: Miss Prudence Stanhope no longer trusted men. Her cousin had tried to lose his own sorrows by seducing her. He failed. Prudence went to the coast to take the waters. Her cousin followed. Lord Charles Ramsay had nothing but his title. He had come back from India to find that all he had owned was gone. Kismet, or Fate, has a way of bringing about unexpected surprises. Sometimes they are wonderful. Sometimes they are awful. Kismet brought together Prudence and Charles in a most compromising way. Prudence wanted nothing more than to escape her cousin and find a new position as a governess or companion. Charles wanted nothing more than Prudence. ***Fate was kept busy in this one! This is the second of the trilogy involving the famous Ramsay family. I had a wonderful time with the romance and learned much about Kismet and how to cure headaches. Fabulous fun!***
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Summary: Kismet has a humorous streak.
Review: Miss Prudence Stanhope no longer trusted men. Her cousin had tried to lose his own sorrows by seducing her. He failed. Prudence went to the coast to take the waters. Her cousin followed. Lord Charles Ramsay had nothing but his title. He had come back from India to find that all he had owned was gone. Kismet, or Fate, has a way of bringing about unexpected surprises. Sometimes they are wonderful. Sometimes they are awful. Kismet brought together Prudence and Charles in a most compromising way. Prudence wanted nothing more than to escape her cousin and find a new position as a governess or companion. Charles wanted nothing more than Prudence. ***Fate was kept busy in this one! This is the second of the trilogy involving the famous Ramsay family. I had a wonderful time with the romance and learned much about Kismet and how to cure headaches. Fabulous fun!***
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Summary: A comforting read to catch up on previous characters
Review: This is the second book about a member of the Ramsay family. Lord Ramsay - head of his family- has returned from his travels in the East to find his humble inheritance squandered away by the very brother he had entrusted it to. In an attempt to fill his coffers, he begins life in a way no gentleman should by business and trade in Brighton.
There, he meet Miss Prudence Stanhope. One who has come with a broken and confused heart over her love for her cousin's husband. She takes to the "healing waters" in hopes of renewing her spirit and getting over the near - affair she would have committed with her cousin-by-marriage.
Lord Ramsay and Miss Stanhope meet in an unexpected way when Lord Ramsay is mistaken for one of the bathhouse workers and comes to Miss Stanhope to relieve some of her physical pain and stress she suffers from her recent life choices.
From the first moment they meet Charles (Ramsay) is intrigued by her and she mad at him for "violating" her the way he did once she finds out who he is after the intimate massage on her person he gave her.
But Lord Ramsay feels it "bad karma" for him not be liked and so through the book he proves to the bittered Miss Stanhope that not all males lie, steal and cheat like she so believed. But can he - in the end - win her love and prove to her for a lifetime how much she is worth.
I found this book enjoyable though at times hard to read simply because Miss Stanhope's feelings toward her cousin pulled at your own heart-strings. Her feelings were very natural and true to her character and reading her pain almost had me putting down the book that I might not feel so sad. (On a personal note I empathize with the character -- not over an affair but the betrayal.) and I think that made my read more poignant.
However, the one thing was that I felt like the love Pru had for her cousin took up too much of the forefront in the book and by the end I really did not feel like she was fully in love with Lord Ramsay. I think this book deserved more than its alloted 200-some pages to allow the love Pru might have for Charles to grow.
I did enjoy the book and as always, Ms. Fairchild's chracters are as natural and unique as the people anyone would come into contact with in real life. I really enjoyed this one because Pru's feelings were evoked in such a "real" fashion. It stayed true to its original form.
If you by chance are reading these older and harder to find books then like all the others I've read this is yet another one to grab especially if you read the first Ramsay novel, "The Love Knot" which was a particular favorite.
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