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A Hero to Hold
A Hero to Hold
A Hero to Hold
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A Hero to Hold

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After enduring her unfaithful husband’s murder and the destruction of her reputation, Viscountess Charlotte Haliday resolves to return to society, the gossip-mongers, and her disapproving father. She’ll be content with her true friends and her charitable work.

She doesn’t expect to be working with a man like David Scott: a hero soon to be awarded the Victoria Cross, broken physically yet still the most exhilarating and intimidating man she’s ever known. From the moment they meet in a shadowy alcove, he awakens a passion she’s never before felt. She in turn shows him life did not end on the battlefield…and he needn’t be alone.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016!

Editor's Note

Unusual Regency...

A disgraced widow chooses to stay out of society’s view, instead devoting herself to good works. In the course of that, she meets a disabled war hero, whose quiet intelligence and compassion awaken her interest — and whose touch reminds her of what she’s never had. Their love affair is passionate, intense, and poignant, as is the writing. Both the hero and heroine are off the beaten path from the usual Regency romance.

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Release dateAug 24, 2021
ISBN9781094420950
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Sheri Humphreys

Sheri Humphreys used to be an Emergency Room nurse, but today applies bandages, splints, and slings to the characters of her Victorian romance novels. Her book, A Hero to Hold, received a prized Kirkus Star and was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2016. She lives with Mama Catt, a mouser of renown, in a small town on the central California coast.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    A book that gives the up and downs of life in every day England
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    What I liked:
    Strong resilient female lead character
    Vulnerable hero who is left disabled after Crimea
    Straight into action beginning
    Redemption even for the bad person
    Complex relationships
    Enough action beyond ball rooms and social niceties
    Well written intimacy

    What I didn't like:
    The last third of the book
    Make lead behaves like a child when he thinks he's being rejected
    The dithering/ misunderstanding at the end which just take too long to be resolved
    His best friend shouts at her and they all go back to being friends like nothing happened.

    All in all, the story is engaging but for me, it just took too long to conclude.

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