![]() ![]() The shenanigans these two involve themselves in are inventive and exciting. Both have reputations that precede them – she is thought to be the mistress of the owner of a successful gaming hell and he is known to be rigid and cold, having lost his spark since his fiancé was killed two years earlier in a riding accident. Then Came You is the story of Lily Lawson, a seemingly decadent woman who is determined that her sister not be forced by their parents into a loveless marriage with Lord Alex Raiford. ![]() And, how did someone who hadn’t yet become a mother know so well the fears, longing, and love we mothers have for our children? Perhaps I fell in love with it as well because I was a new mother, and the pathos of the story is, in great part, derived from mother love.Īfter meeting the author last year, I was even more impressed by the book because, when she wrote it, Lisa Kleypas was a fairly sheltered young woman who hadn’t experienced much of the passion so wonderfully expressed. Different than most of the romances I’d read, it featured a heroine more tortured than the hero, a so-called “fallen” woman with a wicked reputation. I first read Then Came You in 1993, shortly after discovering romance, and it is one of the reasons I fell in love with the genre. ![]()
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