If romance readers read primarily for a visceral reaction, this book will be hugely successful because Merripen and Win’s strength of feeling for each other is remarkable. Julian and she have grown close and Win brings him home with her so that he can have the chance to woo her. So when she returns, she brings back her doctor, Julian Harrow.
Win goes off, gets better, and returns but after two years and one letter from Merripen Win wonders if she shouldn’t just move on. His existence on this world, though, continues only because she is here. He believes can’t ever hold her or really have her because he isn’t good enough for her given his background. He’s fiercely protective of the family and loves Win desperately. Merripen is a gypsy who was taken in by the Hathaway family when he was left for dead by his tribe. Merripen would rather Winnifred stays an invalid for the rest of her life because at least she would be alive and with him. She feels that if she wasn’t so frail and delicate, if she wasn’t an invalid, then Merripen and she can be together. It may kill her but it also may make her well. Win chooses a risky and experimental clinic in France. When her sister marries a wealthy man, the family now has the means to get Win medical care.
Winnifred was struck by scarlet fever and while she survived, her physical state was greatly weakened.
That dream carries me through every night I long to tell you so many things, but I am not free yet I hope to be well enough someday to shock you again, with far more pleasing results. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. There’s a papable physical attraction, but even more than that is the fierce emotional ties that bind them. What I thought was similar was the strong emotional connection between Merripen and Win, the leads in Seduce Me at Sunrise. The book had some similar underpinnings with the hero being of the lower class with a grotesque background who feels completely unworthy to be loved by the heroine, a gently bred young woman. Some have told me that Seduce Me at Sunrise was as good as Kleypas’ penultimate book, Dreaming of You, featuring Derek Craven and Sara Fielding. Jane Book Reviews class-difference / Lisa-Kleypas / Regency England 18 Comments OctoREVIEW: Seduce Me at Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas
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