3.5 starsJane Wilby also writes under the name Anne Hampson. This story was pretty good but much tamer than I expected. When their parents died, the heroine and her brother had been taken in by a great uncle who had no time for kids. When he passes on, he puts it in his will for the hero to take over as guardian as a form of revenge. The H initially declines but takes up the reins later when the h and her brother make a muck of it. The H is, of course, cold and uncaring, but warms up eventually. This story is basically safe from hard limits except for one scene where the H "boxes her ears". So, if you like historical romances but don't want the commitment of 500+ pages and can overlook that one slap, then you'd probably like this one.
