One of the things I most appreciated about this story was that Stephen, when presented with the facts, was willing to risk being humiliated once again and arranged to have Sherry brought to him so he could convince her to marry him. She was so ashamed of what she had learned, humiliated by the way she learned it and then toss into the mix that which Charise was threatening to do to her and the Westmoreland’s-well, what was a girl in her shoes to do, I ask you? I liked Sherry and couldn’t fault her for being a runaway bride when she learned the truth of who she was.

When she didn’t and when he learned where she had gone, he decided to put the past behind him and move on and under the circumstances, who could blame him? But honestly, we could see that he wasn’t really moving on with his life, he was merely going through the motions. He did wait several hours, hoping she would return. I enjoyed the storyline and thought Stephen was very charming before he became an ass-but he wasn’t too big an ass considering his bride had left him at the altar. I wasn’t sure what to expect after having just read Whitney, My Love which could have been entitled A Tale of Misunderstandings and People Who Are Too Bullheaded To Even Consider Talking Things Out, … but I digress.

It was to be the beginning of a dazzling, witty, dramatic, and romantic sequence of events in which every possible confusion was to take place. Sheridan was knocked unconscious on the quayside, and recovered to find herself in the handsome stranger's care, not knowing who she was. Lord Burleton, a drunkard and a wastrel, had been killed the night before. She was doubly shocked when she heard his news.

As she gazed at the tall, confident man before her, her courage failed. And Sheridan was left with the horrid task of telling Lord Burleton she had somehow misplaced his bride. But somehow everything went wrong.įor Miss Charise Lancaster, not over-gifted with intelligence, eloped with a stranger before she could meet her suitor. Now, at last, she could visit her family's country. When she was hired to act as chaperone to a pretty but spoilt heiress travelling to England to join an aristocratic fiance, Sheridan was delighted. Then, given over to the care of a strict maiden aunt, she was taught to be a lady-poor but genteel-and finally a teacher. Sheridan Bromleigh had spent most of her early life as a happy vagabond with her unruly American father and his vagrant friends.

Until you by judith mcnaught