"Second book in Mayfair Brides trilogy is one of the best historical romances I've read."

At 17, falling in love with Lord Roman Aylesgarth is the last thing servant Trista Nash ever expects to happen. But it does, and when Roman claims to also love her and want to marry her, she believes him. Trista gives herself to Roman and soon discovers she's pregnant. When Roman informs her that he's being forced to marry someone else to gain a great fortune, but says he wants to keep Trista as his mistress, she's appalled and runs away.

Seven years later, not knowing her real father was a duke, Trista becomes an heiress when Lady May Hayworth bestows a fortune on her from her father's estate. Trista is now living in Hyde Park and it's inevitable that she run into Roman. Not wanting her child to grow up being known as a bastard, Trista has always claimed that she fell in love and wed shortly after leaving Roman, and the child was a result of that marriage. It doesn't take long for Roman to figure out the truth and demand his parental rights. But the child doesn't want to have anything to do with Roman, leaving him frustrated. All Roman wants is to love Trista and get to know his son.

When Trista and Roman decide to marry for the sake of their child, they believe their dreams have finally come true. However, neither has told the other of their true feelings. When Roman takes his new family back to where it all began, things only get worse for the newlyweds.

THE HEIRESS OF HYDE PARK, the second book in the Mayfair Brides trilogy, is by far one of the finest stories I've read. The love Trista and Roman have for each other, and their desperate desire to get back what they lost, is extremely touching.

Reviewed by Tammie Ard
Posted July 10, 2004

Summary

In this follow-up to "The Princess of Park Lane"—the first in the Mayfair Brides—a young lord and the daughter of a governess must forsake love, for he must marry an heiress. If only a fairy godmother could reverse their fate.