Windham Brides #4, The last of the Windham's finally gets married. Charlotte Windham is certain she is going to maintain her spinsterhood. She feels the only way to get out of her family's matchmaking is to create a little scandal that will make her an undesirable. She feels that Lucas Sherbourne is the perfect man for the job, but Lucas doesn't have a simple dalliance in mind he wants marriage. She thinks about it and turns him down; during their goodbye kiss, however, they are interrupted by Charlotte's Aunt and Uncle and Charlotte marries Lucas. The romance between Charlotte and Lucas is fairly easy, Charlotte knows her mind and once she realizes she loves Lucas there is no stopping her; Lucas is a little slower on the uptake. Charlotte and Lucas have quite a bit in common despite the difference of the parentage and that she is from a well titled family. Lucas sometime feels guilty for marrying her seeing as he's so far beneath her but Charlotte shows him she is happy where she ended up she wants to be the perfect wife for him and with his mines in the works Charlotte sets it in her mind she's going to know everything he knows so she can help. Her talent with numbers helped a great deal with the mud slide and double checking the numbers.
Charlotte has always been very headstrong and independent, she keeps herself apart from everyone even her own family. In school she had a very good friend, a vicar's daughter, who after school was able to get enough money for a season in London. Charlotte's friend was seduced, lied to, used, abused, and then abandoned when she found out she was with child and then died from a complicated childbirth. Charlotte never knew the name of the man who did this to her friend but she vowed if she ever found out who this titled "gentleman" was she would ruin him. This also lead Charlotte on her charitable endeavors of helping young woman who found themselves in the same situation. Charlotte has told only one person this story and that was Lucas and he tells her he would help her ruin the man. That is until they find out that man is the same man who just bought into a partnership with Lucas for his mine and is being thoroughly annoying. Charlotte and Lucas have their first real argument and as much as Charlotte loves Lucas she can not forget that he is choosing business over her. Lucas must find a way to set things right with the wife he loves and not lose any money.
Overall, this was a very light and easy romance, and charming. Lucas and Charlotte were perfect for each other and it was obvious in the last book. This book may be the fourth in this series and a spinoff of another and Lucas and Charlotte may have meet in the previous book this can be read as a stand alone. Book 3 does have quite a bit of background on Lucas but where it leaves off with Charlotte and him is where this book picks up and everything you need to know is wrapped up in a nutshell. The series and the book are wrapped up in a nice little bow everyone is happy, well almost everyone the bad guy is not.
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