Review: Loving a Lost Lord

Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Yet another book which I have read, and half re-read yet failed to write a review.

Mariah Clarke's father won their home, Hartley Manor, in a gaming hell. Finally, after years of travelling from one gaming hell to another, one country to another, one country house to another they have put down roots. But no sooner have they settled down than Mariah's father disappears and George Burke, the original owner of the house tells Mariah her father is dead and is trying to intimidate her into marrying him.

Adam Lawford, the seventh Duke of Ashton was born and brought up in India, with an Indian mother. He has always been treated as a bit of an outcast as a result. One of his latest experiments backfires badly and he almost dies. Mariah rescues him but he has lost his memory. Mariah takes the opportunity to spin the yarn that Adam is her husband, returned from his travels.

As I often find with the first book in an historical series such as this, this was a bit clunky. Adam and Mariah didn't have the wit or the charm of later characters, there was inevitably a lot of backstory and introducing the other Lost Lords as a prologue to their books. Also, there seemed to be too many plots, either there should be dastardly deeds surrounding Mariah's father's death or Adam's accident, not both!

According to Goodreads I haven't read any of the others in this series either - do we think that's right or did I just fail to write a review?

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