The Lost Letter A Victorian Romance by Mimi Matthews
The Lost Letter by Mimi Matthews on September 19, 2017
Genres: Fiction / Christian / Romance / Historical, Fiction / Romance / Clean & Wholesome, Fiction / Romance / Historical / Victorian
Pages: 242
Goodreads
"[A] gripping, emotional Victorian romance...Historical romance fans should snap this one up." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
A Proud Beauty
When the tragic death of her gamester father leaves her destitute and alone, society beauty Sylvia Stafford finds work as a governess in a merchant's household in Cheapside. Isolated from the fashionable acquaintance of her youth, she resigns herself to lonely spinsterhood...until a mysterious visitor convinces her to temporarily return to her former life--and her former love.
A Scarred Beast
Colonel Sebastian Conrad is no longer the dashing cavalry officer Sylvia once fell in love with. Badly scarred during the Sepoy Rebellion, he has withdrawn to his estate in rural Hertfordshire where he lives in near complete seclusion. Brooding and tormented, he cares nothing for the earldom he has inherited--and even less for the faithless beauty who rejected him three years before.
A Second Chance
A week together in the remote Victorian countryside is the last thing either of them ever wanted. But when fate intervenes to reunite them, will a beastly earl and an impoverished beauty finally find their happily-ever-after? Or are some fairy-tale endings simply not meant to be?
The Lost Letter by Mimi Matthews is a fantastic masterpiece of second chance love. The story is based in the Victorian age during the Sepoy War – a war waged in India between the Indian soldiers called Sepoys and the British East India Company. The heroine Sylvia falls in love with a dashing cavalry man named Colonel Conrad. And when he departs to fight in India, Sylvia sends him letters that go unanswered. While he is away, Sylvia’s world falls apart when her wastrel father dies leaving her in debt. She is forced to work as a governess for a merchant. When Conrad returns, he is a scarred man who hides away at his distant estate. Their worlds collide again when Conrad’s sister meddles to force them together once again. This is a second chance romance, forced proximity trope with a dash of Beauty and the Beast. Matthews is spot on with her descriptions of Victorian era England. A woman of the aristocracy was totally dependent on the males in her life. If she doesn’t marry, then her family must care for her. If she had no family, then she would have to make her way as a governess or companion. Their world was limited and confined. Matthew weaves her heart aching magic all throughout her story. An absolute triumph! I can’t wait for another one of her masterpieces.
