A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecilia Grant

Lucy’s father, however, is particular about only giving his birds to those who will know what to do with them and provide them with a good home. Lucy finds Andrew attractive and is charmed by his thoughtful desire to acquire a falcon for his sister so that she’ll have something all her own. The only young people near her own age whom Lucy has met are her cousins and those men who stop at her father’s estate to purchase hunting birds. Although she understands the same social strictures Andrew observes religiously, to her they are remote concepts, rules she was told about by her governesses and her aunt, but not actually made to follow. Lucy was raised by her widowed father and has had an unconventional upbringing. The girl declines his offer, but they later meet again, when he discovers that she is Lord Sharp’s daughter, Lucy. Nonetheless, he offers to convey her wherever she is going to keep her out of the pouring rain. Not only did the girl wear no hat or bonnet, but her hair-pitch dark masses of it-fell straight down, unbound and ungoverned, for some scandalous number of inches before it disappeared into the collar of her cloak.Īndrew has never seen a woman with her hair down, and he can’t help but feel an attraction, but his shame at being drawn to the girl quickly merges with disapproval of her.

Shock sparked at the nape of his neck, followed by a faint, irrational prickling of shame, and an impulse to avert his eyes. As he halts the carriage, he sees that-even more shocking-her hair is down. Having insisted on taking the reins from his coachman in order to find the place, he is stunned when he comes upon a young lady in the lane. On his way to Lord Sharp’s manor at Mosscroft, Andrew is caught in a rainstorm. To mark the occasion, Andrew has decided to get Kitty a special gift-a hunting falcon from Lord Sharp’s mews. Andrew’s sister is about to marry, so the Christmas of 1807 may be the last, at least for a while, that he and his siblings will spend together. The book is about Andrew Blackshear, the oldest of the Blackshear siblings, three of whose stories appeared in your earlier novels. I’ve been waiting for your 62,000 word novel, A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong, for a while now, so when I saw it had come out, I snapped it up. Janine B- Reviews Christmas / England / Georgian / historical romance / virgin hero 25 Comments DecemREVIEW: A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecilia Grant