

I got a pleasant surprise, though the book itself wasn’t always a pleasant experience. (It stands alone just fine, by the way.) I picked it up because it is a paperback and I’m trying to clear out space. I didn’t even notice it is the second in a trilogy until after I had read it.

To Have and to Hold is my first book by Patricia Gaffney. Scorned by the townspeople of Wyckerley as D’Aubrey’s mistress, tempted beyond her will by the devilish lord, Rachel risks all she had to claim a life of her own…and a love that will last for all time. For no one will offer her a second chance but a jaded viscount who needs a housekeeper. Rachel Wade has served time in prison for her husband’s violent death, but she soon discovers that freedom has its own price. Nor can the new Viscount D’Aubrey foresee that when a fallen woman appears before him, he’ll find himself beguiled against all reason to alter her terrible fate… Suave, cynical, and too handsome for his own good, Sebastian Verlaine never expects to become a magistrate judging the petty crimes of his tenants and neighbors. Alicia Thomas’s review of To Have and to Hold (Wyckerley Trilogy Book 2) by Patricia Gaffney
