Ilze

Grace Burrowes just keeps getting better and better. So much to love about this book: Ethan, the hero who has spent more than half of his life getting over a traumatic assault when he was 14, Alice the heroine, who is suffering for herself and her sister, all the wonderful parts about horses and riding, which evidently Grace Burrowes knows a GREAT deal about, the gradually unfolding love between Ethan and Alice, Ethan's two sons Joshua and Jeremiah, who are great characters, and much much more! 

I agree with some other reviewers that it's a little difficult to keep all the tertiary characters straight. Never was sure who exactly "Lady Warne" was, although I think she might have appeared in the previous book in this series, the one about Ethan's half-brother Nicholas. She played a fairly big role in Ethan's life prior to the time of this story, so I would have appreciated a proper explanation of who she is, rather than just some random person whose name was dropped into the story every once in a while.

After a second reading I have to lower the rating of this book - it didn't delight me nearly as much the second time around.