I liked that the abuse wasn't dwelled on, it's a part of her past, but it's never so heavy in description to become overly depressing. It's easy to see how she misinterprets Crispin's behavior at times and tends to assume the worst. Knowing her past and the abuse she suffered, her self-doubt and mistrust of others is believable. I think having such a positive childhood would have helped her endure the hardship her uncle has put her through for the past eight years.
She has had a hard eight years, after loosing her loving father she becomes the ward to her abusive uncle. Even knowing how everything plays out, the characters are captivating and the story compelling. I've read this one a few times, each time it sucks me in and I have a hard time putting it down. Eden's regencies, I always end up wanting to re-read all the rest of her books as well. As a battle of wits escalates into a life-threatening confrontation, will it be possible for Crispin and Catherine to live happily ever after? But their hopes are dashed when forces conspire to split asunder what fate has granted. Their unfolding relationship reveals encouraging surprises for both of them, and privately each of them wonders if theirs may become a true marriage of the heart. Trapped between an unwanted marriage and a hasty annulment, which would leave his reputation tainted and Catherine's utterly ruined, Crispin begins guiding his wife's transformation from a socially petrified country girl to a lady of society. The dismayed young lord has no choice but to marry Miss Catherine Thorndale, who lacks both money and refinement and assumes all men are as vicious as her guardian uncle. But he couldn't be more mistaken-the maid is not only a lady of birth, she's the niece of a very large, exceptionally angry gentlemen, who claims Crispin has compromised his niece beyond redemption. When Crispin, Lord Cavratt, thoroughly and scandalously kisses a serving woman in the garden of a country inn, he assumes the encounter will be of no consequence.
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