A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

A NIGHT TO SURRENDER

Author: Tessa Dare ISBN: 9780062049834 9/2011 HISTORICAL Publisher: AVON
Time Period: Regency 1813

A Night to Surrrender by Tessa Dare
Welcome to Spindle Cove, where the ladies with delicate constitutions come for the sea air, and men in their prime are . . . nowhere to be found.

Or are they?

Spindle Cove is the destination of choice for certain types of well-bred young ladies: the painfully shy, young wives disenchanted with matrimony, and young girls too enchanted with the wrong men; it is a haven for those who live there.

Victor Bramwell, the new Earl of Rycliff, knows he doesn’t belong here. So far as he can tell, there’s nothing in this place but spinsters . . . and sheep. But he has no choice, he has orders to gather a militia. It’s a simple mission, made complicated by the spirited, exquisite Susanna Finch—a woman who is determined to save her personal utopia from the invasion of Bram’s makeshift army.

Susanna has no use for aggravating men; Bram has sworn off interfering women. The scene is set for an epic battle…but who can be named the winner when both have so much to lose?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS: Top Pick

Would you know how much I liked A NIGHT TO SURRENDER if I just squeal through this review? Because that’s all I want to do. From the first moment, when Bram steals a kiss off of Susanna to the lamb named Dinner, I loved this book, and I simultaneously wanted to read faster to see what happened next, while wanting to read slower to make the book last longer. I enjoyed how capable Susanna was in doing men’s tasks, but that she wasn’t overly showoffy about it. I also liked that even though Bram would let his temper get the best of him at times, he was quick to realize it and come back around to the reasonable side.

A NIGHT TO SURRENDER is the first in a trilogy set in Spindle Cove, a harbor village that caters to women who need to get away from Society in order to flourish. I don’t always have the best track record with Ms. Dare’s trilogies, as I usually find that I only like one or two, but never all three; but I will hold out hope that A WEEK TO BE WICKED (March 2012) and the last book in the trilogy both rise above the bar set by A NIGHT TO SURRENDER.

Melissa Stratford

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