Someone to Hold is the second in Mary Balogh's Westcott series. I adored the first one when I read it in October and I think I may just adore this one even more (which hardly even seems possible)!
We met Camille Westcott in the first book but never really got to know her and this is the story where we get to know her and, more importantly, she gets to know herself. She had always been Lady Camille -- until it was discovered that her birth (and those of her sister and brother) was illegitimate as her father had been married to the mother of our Someone to Love heroine, Anna. Now Lady Camille is just Camille and living in the place where Anna had grown up. Not only is she living in the same town, but she starts to work at the same orphanage where Anna had spent the majority of her life leading up to StL! Of course, this means she gets to meet the people who knew her half-sister the best -- including her lifelong best friend, Joel Cunningham.
It's a lovely story of opening up to others and self and I easily devoured it in just over a day. It would have been done in a sitting, but one has to work, eat and sleep ... rather unfortunately.
Friday 56 (today is from the 56% mark of the ebook) is hosted at Freda's Voice
& Book Beginnings (share the first few sentences) is at Rose City Reader.
7 comments:
Great excerpts. I've been meaning to read this author. Thanks for sharing, and here's mine: “THOSE OTHER WOMEN”
I wonder what caused her transformation.
sherry @ fundinmental Friday Memes
Sounds like a wonderful story. I haven't read anything by this author for years and should begin again. This week I am spotlighting The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye. Happy reading!
Sounds really good to me. I'll have to check out book 1! Happy weekend!
I like it when the second books is just as good if not better than the first!
I love Balogh but it's been far too long since I've read anything by her. I love when the 2nd book not only lives up to expectations but exceeds them!
The covers of these kind of books make everything seems to exotic and beautiful. I wonder what it was really like to wear white before there was bleach? Ha! I'm highlighting BEARTOWN today
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