The Paid Companion by Amanda Quick. 388 pp.
Sometimes I want a comfort read--I don't want to worry that horrible things will happen to good people at the end, or work too hard at absorbing a new setting, or wrestling with any deep ideas. Either I'll re-read an old favorite, or I'll read a book like this one: a romance, where I know the basic setup going in and know the outcome--an HEA, "happily ever after," or something very like it--and just enjoy the comfortable ride. With an Amanda Quick book I get a 19th-century-England setting, an eccentric but socially well-off man, an eccentric but sensible woman, a mystery that one of them is trying to solve, and an HEA. Despite the lame title this one fit the bill exactly for me, and the ride was quite enjoyable.
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