

He doesn’t know she is part of the gentry but falls in love anyway. She is bought by kind-hearted hero to prevent a sadist from buying her first.

This is problem two.Īs for the story, here it is in a nutshell: Orphaned gentlewoman agrees to sell herself at auction to save her uncle and aunt’s home and finance her sister’s coming out. The blond hair was a tip-off, and in this case, blond is bland. Unfortunately, Johanna has written a kinder, gentler hero in this book, and it doesn’t work. Johanna Lindsey writes some of the best alpha males around. Perhaps that is why Johanna Lindsey spent so much time on various members of the Malory family and so little time on Derek Malory’s actual relationship with heroine Kelsey Langton. Say You Love Me is the fifth in the Malory series. Because Say You Love Me is not a keeper and will not be joining those other treasured Lindsey’s in your collection. If you’re looking for a great Johanna Lindsey to read, look no farther.than your keeper shelf and re-read one of her older releases.
