"Texas meets Victorian aristocracy tale"
In 1880, the investigators hired by the Earl of Sachse to
locate his relative, who vanished as a boy in America two
decades ago and should have the title, succeeds. Thus the
Texas barbarian Tom inherits the title because his distant
cousin Archibald did the honorable thing. Tom arrives in
London, but has a different agenda in mind than the title;
he seeks his beloved Miss Lauren Fairfield to fulfill a
vow he made to her in Texas. She is in town visiting her
English aristocratic relative Lord Ravenleigh,
Christopher "Kit" Montgomery (see NEVER MARRY A COWBOY). Lauren assumes Tom forgot his moonlight promise and now
has a place amongst the Ton. She agrees to tutor him on
the deportment of an aristocrat, not realizing he could
not care one iota about proper behavior. Instead he plans
to re-win the heart of the woman he still loves. Lorraine Heath has carved out a delightful niche in the
historical romance realm with her Texas meets Victorian
aristocracy tales. PROMISE ME FOREVER contains a fun
fresh story line starring two wonderful Americans who feel
out of place amidst the upper crust yet that is the milieu
of his courtship. Victorian romance readers will gain
vast enjoyment from Ms. Heath's wonderful late nineteenth
century historical. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted April 11, 2006
SummaryOn the outside, Lauren Fairfield appears the very picture of
cool, contained nobility and blueblood British
sophistication. Inside, however, she longs for Tom, the
charming rogue she loved—and lost.
Now a sinfully handsome would-be gentleman has arrived in
London—and Lauren nearly swoons when she realizes it is
her Tom, grown to magnificent manhood. He has come to claim
his lost title as Earl of Sachse...and to fulfill an oath
once made by two young lovers beneath a long-ago moon, a
scandalous promise no proper lady would dare honor.
Lauren could never love a staid and stifling lord, and Tom's
future is the aristocracy. So she will teach him their ways
before she exits his life forever. But the wildness she
adored still lives in Tom's heart—and he will not rest
until he proves to the proud, resisting beauty that
"forever" is a promise that must be kept...
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