Tuesday, January 13, 2015

'Twas the Night After Christmas - Sabrina Jeffries

Date Started: 1/10/15
Date Finished: 1/11/15

We do a lot of prank gifts at our house during the holidays. This book was one such prank gift. All you really have to do is look at the cover to see why...picture here. Anywho, I wanted something light and frothy after the last book and figured why not read the prank book?

Surprise, it was a fun read!


Ok, obviously this is a romance but it's not like reading a lot of the more smutty variety. This saves basically all of the sex scenes for the very end of the book. But the story of how the two come together was a fun read and the plot moved at a good pace.

Here's the book flap summary:

Pierce Waverly, the Earl of Devonmont, has never forgiven his parents for inexplicably abandoning him to distant relatives as a child. Nevertheless, when he receives word that the stranger he calls “Mother” is gravely ill, the unabashed rogue makes a rare return to Montcliff, his country estate. There he finds that the woman is perfectly healthy—and that he has fallen for a cunning ruse crafted by her lady’s companion, Mrs. Camilla Stuart. The lively vicar’s widow, too bright and beautiful not to arouse the scoundrel in Pierce, is determined to reconcile the Earl and Lady Devonmont. None of them can predict the secrets, both heartening and shocking, divulged between a mother and son, and between two lovers, each haunted by their pasts, that will make Christmas night at Montcliff one to remember—and the glorious night after, one to treasure for a lifetime.

Spoiler alert: the big secret - the reason why his mother essentially abandoned him to relatives at age 8 is because his father was crazy and threatened to disown his own son because he suspected his wife of cheating on him at some point (she hadn't). Anyway, Camilla brings mother and son together and repairs their relationship and Pierce's inquiry into the orphan Camilla's past allows her mother (a well-to-do woman) to reconnect with her. All's well that ends well! Oh and they end up married with a new daughter and the end. Of course.

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