When the pair find themselves forced to stay in the same inn during harvest celebrations, they decide to partake of the village’s meagre entertainments and forget about their respective family burdens. His and Viola’s paths have not crossed since that time, and she is unaware of his new, titled status.
Marcel Lamarr, who once tried to woo Viola – when she believed herself to be a married woman – is now the Marquess of Dorchester, no less the notorious rake than he was a decade and a half earlier. Two days into a family gathering, ostensibly to celebrate the christening of Viola’s grandson, the pressure to appear happy with her lot becomes too much and Viola flees for home in a hired carriage, only to find herself stranded in a remote inn with a man she told to go away some fifteen years earlier. Viola Kingsley feels that she has always been defined by other people’s expectations of her various roles: daughter, wife, mother – and now she gains far less enjoyment from the one option still open to her, that of mother, than she ever did before the family received the shocking news of the Earl’s previous marriage. While at least some of his children have been able to accept their new, lowered status, his widow, who was never truly his wife, is still struggling two years later. When the Earl of Riverdale was posthumously discovered to have been a bigamist, the effects on his family were devastating. Historical Romance published by Berkley 01 May 18 Stevie‘s review of Someone to Care (Westcott Novels, Book 4) by Mary Balogh
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