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Death Ground by Ed Gorman
3.0
Theo has lived a sheltered life as the one who sacrifices for the family. In exchange for not having a season, not being taught the finer arts and not being encouraged to find her beauty, she has reached the rounded age of thirty without the three things she wants the most: a household of her own, a husband and children of her own. As a stabilizing influence while her brother grew their prospects as a banker and earned a knighthood, Dorothea is always the aunt/basically servant and never the mother.
She does however have HEATED desires… namely for a prizefighter by the name of Oak/Griffin, a man, who unbeknownst to her, is seeking a lady to guide his 14 year old daughter, and a banker for all of the money he has made by fighting and owning inns. He finds both of these with the Harts. However, this does not mean things will go smoothly.
An indiscretion at Theo’s birthday party FINALLY gives her a shot at what she has always dreamt about… but there a few things standing in her way, namely:
- Louise, the ex-wife, the reason Griffin believes and insists ‘all women are harlots’;
- Griffin being an jackass;
- Rowena being adverse to change, strange people and wanting her father’s love;
- Past issues that won’t stay down;
- The attraction they both fight/avoid in VERY bizarre and awkward ways…
- And the secrets regarding Louise that threaten into 85% of the book.
If you like your heroes brutish and fumbling and your women naive and sheltered, this may be for you.
She does however have HEATED desires… namely for a prizefighter by the name of Oak/Griffin, a man, who unbeknownst to her, is seeking a lady to guide his 14 year old daughter, and a banker for all of the money he has made by fighting and owning inns. He finds both of these with the Harts. However, this does not mean things will go smoothly.
An indiscretion at Theo’s birthday party FINALLY gives her a shot at what she has always dreamt about… but there a few things standing in her way, namely:
- Louise, the ex-wife, the reason Griffin believes and insists ‘all women are harlots’;
- Griffin being an jackass;
- Rowena being adverse to change, strange people and wanting her father’s love;
- Past issues that won’t stay down;
- The attraction they both fight/avoid in VERY bizarre and awkward ways…
- And the secrets regarding Louise that threaten into 85% of the book.
If you like your heroes brutish and fumbling and your women naive and sheltered, this may be for you.