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The Lost Letter

von Mimi Matthews

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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 Badly scarred during the Sepoy Rebellion, he has withdrawn to his estate in rural Hertfordshire where he lives in near complete seclusion.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?… (mehr)

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Three years ago, Sebastian (the second son to an Earl and a soldier) met Sylvia (the daughter of a Baron) at a party. Over the next few months they spent time together and fell in love, but they never declared their feelings to one another before he had to leave for war.

They both wrote to each other while he was away, but neither received the letters. Eventually they both assumed that the other didn't care.

Two years later, Sylvia's father, who was a reckless gambler, lost everything and took his own life. Sylvia took a position as a governess to provide for herself.

A year after she became a governess, Sebastian's sister shows up and begs Sylvia to visit Sebastian, who was seriously wounded in the war.

I loved the first half of the book, but the second half had a misunderstanding that wasn't very believable, at least to me. It was still a good novella though, and Justine Eyre did a great job narrating. (

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zeronetwo | May 14, 2024 |

Girl meets a soldier at a party, but neither receives the correspondence when he's deployed in India. After her father's suicide, the girl works as a governess, until the soldier's sister finds her and tricks her into meeting her brother again. (

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nancynova | Apr 28, 2024 |

Pleasant historical romance. (

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Luziadovalongo | Jul 14, 2022 |

I enjoyed this. I liked how practical the heroine was, and also particularly brave emotionally I think. The hero had some preconceived notions about the heroine's actions in the past and about his scars, that he just stubbornly stuck to no matter what new information he might receive. And I will say, even if he *had* been correct, it still wouldn't have justified being so mean. I get that people can be spiteful when their feelings are hurt, but just disappointing his hopes isn't that enormous of an offense. (mild spoiler) they didn't even really have an official understanding. If she chose to entertain someone else's courtship, or not correspond with him, she was entirely free to do so. It would have been pretty lame for him, but his level of lashing out to hurt her back made him seem like he felt that he was entitled to her affection. He could have very easily driven off his second chance at happiness with her. Obviously this is a romance, so I'm glad it worked out, lol, but it made him less of a catch in my eyes. The author did a pretty good job of wording things just-so, so that the characters could *think* they knew what the other was saying but actually be way off. Often those scenarios are quite a stretch of believability, but these were like 'yeah, I can see how you might take it like that'. And I appreciate the extra effort that took. (

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JorgeousJotts | Dec 3, 2021 |

"The Lost Letter "was basically a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" set in Victorian England, and it was extremely well done. I liked the two main characters, Sylvia and Sebastian, and their chemistry was delightful. Sylvia was proud, hard-working and determined to make an independent life for herself after her father committed suicide. Milsom, Sebastian's man servant and his younger sister, Lady Julia, brought humour to the novel as they tried to bring Sylvia and Sebastian together.

"The Lost Letter" was a sweet romance dealing with second chances that kept me entertained from start to finish. (

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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?

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