I also love the humor in this story (and there is plenty), the witty banter, the sparks that fly when North and Diana go toe to toe, and the sweetness that flows between them in the quiet moments of the darkest hours of the night. The sheer yearning in those moments had my heart clutching and my hand reaching for the tissues. They're just so darn good together.even when they're both certain they'll never be together. I've read Diana and North's story twice and already I'm eager to go back to the first page and begin again. In fact, not since Julia Quinn's Bridgertons have I fallen in love with a family so quickly or completely. Only one thing threatened that happiness: the return of North. Who would have thought the young woman destined to be a duchess would now be working as a governess for the same family of which she would have been a member? And, more amazingly, who would have imagined that she would be happier than she ever could have been as a duchess happy, independent, and free to be herself, with no expectations of society hanging over her or watching her every move. Or maybe, this new Diana is exactly what he needs.ĭiana had a very good reason for her actions two years ago but those actions steered her onto a path that no one could have foreseen. Living in close proximity to one who chose to run away rather than become his duchess is an upheaval he doesn't need. What he finds is his former fiancée working at his family home as a (rather inept) governess for his youngest sister and the young boy society believes is his but this Diana is nothing like the demure fashionista to whom he was betrothed.

He's a man haunted by war, unable to sleep, searching for peace.

The North who returns from war in the colonies two years later is vastly different from the man who left believing he had been betrayed by Diana, a woman he hasn't quite been able to forget. Is it any wonder they didn't make it to the altar? Neither put forth the effort to look beyond the surface presented by the other or to dig too deeply when Diana ran from her own betrothal party. At first glance, Lord Roland Wilde a/k/a North and his fiancée, Miss Diana Belgrave seemed the perfect couple but a look beneath the shiny exterior would have revealed something very different.

Too wilde to wed eloisa james