Despite a forced wedding to preserve her reputation, Lady Violet Grey and Lord James Audley were madly in love for the first year of their marriage. And then they had a HUGE argument that led to four years of an icy, loveless marriage. But when Violet receives news that her estranged husband has been gravely injured, she rushes to his side...only to discover that he's just fine and her worry was unnecessary. To get back at this, she devises a plot to convince him she's ill, convinced that it will prove to them both that he still cares about her. As you can probably guess, things don't go quite as planned.
Second-chance romance is a genre trope that I've always had trouble with, in large part because all of the conflict upon which the plot depends could usually get solved with a single honest conversation between the two main characters. And that's definitely the case here. Yes, each of them has their own issues to sort out, but those aren't the sort of things that can be solved by love (even in the world of a romance novel), and those issues would be monumentally easier to deal with if they sat down, chatted, and worked on them with the support of a loving spouse...which is exactly what happens 300 pages later than necessary. There are some other books in this series that I'm interested in reading (which is the main reason I picked up this series-starter) — I can only hope that they center on a different trope.
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