| Date: 23 May 2011, 04:58
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From Publishers Weekly
Becnel's follow-up to The Bridemaker (2002) is a mild but unusual story of a lord struggling to care for his illegitimate daughters and the country lass who teaches him the difference between duty and love. James Lindford, Viscount Farley, gave little thought to the children he'd fathered during the casual affairs of his youth, but when he discovers one of his daughters living the life of a street urchin, he's determined to bring them home. The ensuing scandal drives him from London to his country estate and destroys his engagement to his very proper fiancee. James's children soon disrupt both his household and the sleepy Yorkshire village where Miss Phoebe Churchill is raising her niece, an illegitimate child herself. When Phoebe discovers that her new neighbor's daughter is stealing from her farm, James entreats her to become his children's governess. Although both Phoebe and James are appealing, there's little chemistry between them. The conflict revolves around Phoebe's lust for James and her struggle to maintain her moral purity; however, that battle grows old, and the novel soon starts to feel more like a child-rearing primer than a romance. Despite the book's unusually straightforward look at illegitimacy, the relationship between the protagonists covers familiar terrain.
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From Booklist
James Lindford, Viscount Farley, has sown his wild oats and is ready to take responsibility for any that sprouted. He has three children, two of whom he's brought to live with him. James is resolved to raise his illegitimate children himself, even though it has cost him his fiancee and a career in politics. It is his hell-raising daughter who brings his neighbor, Phoebe, into his life. Phoebe's possessions are missing, and James' daughter is the culprit. Phoebe is able to connect with the girl, and James decides that she should become his children's governess. Phoebe, who is raising her seven-year-old niece, is reluctant because of his reputation, but she needs the money. She initially refuses James' advances, eventually succumbs, then chastises herself after every foray into the bedroom. But nothing, not even the revelation that her niece is James' third daughter or the fact that his fiancee is interested again, keeps Phoebe away from James in Becnel's maddening, sensual roller coaster of a book.
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