One year ago Cassandra met Vincent at a ball. The attraction is immediate and undeniable... But after spending a wonderful night together, Vincent disappears...
Now, Cassandra is back with a little surprise... While Vincent brings in his new fiancee, Cassandra introduces him to his little daughter. Because she is ill and believes she is about to die Cassandra has no choice but to ask for the Sinclairs to take her daughter in. She is casted from her home when her family learned about the pregnancy...
Vincent is angry, the one night he was not able to forget comes back with a vengeance. Just at the moment he has found himself a convenient wife and his dad believes her to be the cure to the curse... But when they learn Cassandra will get better, he hasn't got the heart to just turn his back on her. So he sets her up in a house, with servants and a legal binding contract to take care of her and June, while he can see his daughter grow up.
But while he is determined to continue his life as if nothing changed, he finds himself softening towards both June and her mother. Questioning his engagement to the cold, calculated Letitia...
When I met Vincent in 'In my wildest fantasies' I was intrigued by him. He was the brother you just loved to dislike. After being betrayed by Devon, he starts a life of womanizing, debauchery and coldhearted reasoning. Only Cassandra reaches a soft spot, but he firmly closes the door behind him after their night of passion. Even when she barges in his life again with a daughter who captures his heart straight away, he refuses to believe he could be what Cassandra wants. No fidelity for him, no caring wife to come home to. That's why he choose Letitia... She doesn't care about him or what he intends to do after their marriage.
I just couldn't like Vincent. He could be harsh, uncaring and I really wondered how MacLean was going to redeem him... Until Charlotte, his sister, shows us what her brother is really like and opened our eyes to the Vincent he is so hard trying to hide...
Cassandra is a widow when she meets Vincent. When she finds out she is carrying a child she is thrown out of her house. Forced to find a job and make her own money.
When she is ill and the doctor says she won't live long anymore, she has no other option but to turn to the man who wouldn't answer her letters.
In the beginning I was wondering how this would turn out... Vincent was real, didn't change overnight, but that also made it hard to like him. So I had fears that I would never start to like him, but I did. I adored Cassandra right away, and Vincent grew on me as I started to look behind the mask he was wearing.
One, no two things that I would have liked to see different.
1. The epilogue.
The series isn't finished, so I would have preferred just to know they were traveling. What happens when all is said and done would have been preferable in an epilogue in the very last book... But that's my opinion.
2. The dialogue between the brothers. So many years of dislike, even hate. I'd expected a more heated conversation, more blaming and building bridges. I think people who didn't read Devon's story might have a hard time relating to him.
But overall, this is another great love story about love, friendship, forgiveness by Julianne MacLean.
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