Victoire

There is a definite charm in a romance where no body parts throb, pulse or swell, where the heroine behaves within the limits of acceptable behavior for the period and hero is not an incipient rapist. It's not that I dislike books with more sexual content, I'm not the least prudish, but sometimes a book like Victoire just hits the spot. Victoire is daughter of an officer who was killed fighting Napoleon when she was about 13. After her father's death her mother who was French remarried a Frenchmen who sent Victoire to live in Normandy with his mother. However, following Napoleon's abdication, the old lady had become delusional and it was necessary to send Victoire to her father's cousin, an Irish scoundrel.But the Irish scoundrel has plans for Victoire that involve trying to separate the family of the Marquis of Tarn from a substanial sum of money. When Tarn unexpectedly returns to England and scotches this plan, the scoundrel hatches one that is even more dastardly and tries to draw Victoire into it. A fast paced fun read with a hot tempered (uh, definitely not feisty) heroine and a young and engaging hero.