Series: Miss Primm's Secret School for Budding Bluestockings, #2
Traits & Tropes: snowed in; best friend's brother; forced proximity; caregiving; starched heroine; compromised
Publication Date: 11.16.21
Genre/Setting: Historical; Regency; England, 1830
Heat Level: 5
Rating: 4/5
Since her lifelong engagement was broken Miss Victoria Shipley has thrown herself into her work as assistant headmistress of a girls’ school. She maintains her focus on being all that is proper and has all but forgotten her former hopes of having a family of her own.
Piers Primm, Earl of Rosewood, has been determined he won’t marry until after his irascible, controlling father’s death and has avoided his family home for the past several years. But with his mother ailing, he knows he must return, only to be stranded by a serious injury and a snowstorm at his sister’s school, the very school where Victoria teaches. Snowed in together over the Christmas holiday, Victoria and Piers find they have a lot to learn from each other.
I don’t know many romance readers who can resist a snowed in at Christmas story and I am certainly not one of them. This is the perfect forced proximity situation, especially when you add in Piers’ injuries and need for care from Victoria. Though these two spent fairly little time together before developing feelings, the circumstances which brought and kept them together made their love very believable and caused them to get to know one another on a deeper level than they otherwise would have. I will say, Victoria frustrated me a bit with just how starched and uptight she was, but she also found these traits to be frustrating in herself and worked to learn more practical skills. I really enjoyed the fact that Piers brought out the person Victoria really was, outside the prim mold she’d forced herself into, and she helped him face some things he’d been avoiding about himself and his family and overcome them to create a brighter future. The steam here was pretty excellent and the pacing of it felt natural to the setting. I’ve never read anything quite like this and I really enjoyed the practicality and openness of the communications between these two MCs. I liked the fast pacing of this story and I’ll likely continue this series.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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