The Girl With the Make-Believe Husband (Rokesbys #2) by Julia Quinn

Summary: "While you were sleeping... With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie...."

Well, dang. This follow-up story to Becoming Miss Bridgerton was a bit of a disappointment. The story-telling and characters are fine, but there's nothing surprising, charming or endearing about this one. I think Billie (from the first novel) is such a wonderful heroine, that Cecelia falls a little flat. 


374 pages