Someone to Honour by Mary BaloghMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Abigail Westcott's life fell apart six years ago when she discovered her parents marriage was an act of bigamy. All at once she went from wealthy aristocrat looking to make an advantageous marriage to an illegitimate nobody and a half-sister she never knew existed inherited all the family wealth.
Six years on, Abby has come to terms with the events of the past, indeed she welcomes the opportunity that the events gave her to make her own choices, including whether or not to marry. When her brother Harry returns from Europe desperately weak, Abby offers to stay with him at his country estate to nurse him back to health.
Lieutenant Colonel Gil Bennington helped to bring Harry back to England. The illegitimate son of a washerwoman he has dragged himself up by his bootstraps and achieved modest wealth from his time in India. His wife has died and left their baby daughter with her parents, who refuse to let him see his own daughter. With no family to look out for him, Gil is happy to escort Harry home and stay a few weeks to look after him.
When Abby and Gil first meet it is very much a case of pride meets prejudice. Abby sees a shirtless man chopping wood in the yard and assumes he is a servant. Gil sees a snooty, cold-hearted member of the aristocracy. Forced to live together while they help Harry Abby and Gil discover they have more in common than they first imagined, but could it be enough to enter into a marriage of convenience in order to win Gil's daughter back?
All together now, I like didn't but I didn't love it. Viola and Marcel's romance had tears rolling down my face whereas this was more of a gentle friendship deepening to love without any of that high emotion.
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