Garrett Gibson, Lister-trained surgeon extraordinaire! For real, how does this guy survive a point blank shot to the gut? Answer: Dr.
This was immensely stressful for me the first time I read this book, as it comes less than halfway through.
(We’ve had an inkling from Devil in Spring, but you don’t need to read DiS in order to read this book.) Ethan, having a heart of gold, becomes a whistleblower and is nearly murdered for his efforts. As it happens, it’s bad news bears, because Shady Home Office guy is trying to prevent Irish home rule by conspiring with Irish radicals to blow up English people. Here’s the deal: Ethan was recruited by this shady guy in the Home Office for some possibly shady intelligence work. Blah, blah, blah, they meet, he’s too into her so he tries to avoid her, she doesn’t let him, they can’t stay apart…aaaaaaaaand Ethan gets into a load of trouble because that’s how Kleypas novels go. For his part, Ethan is not impressed by Garrett’s hand-to-hand combat skills, and he offers to teach her. But then Ethan steps in and rescues her, which she finds totally obnoxious. She’s been learning to fence with a cane so she can defend herself in these hazardous conditions, and that’s exactly what she does as the book opens and she’s set upon by three ruffians. Since he came to the aid of Garrett and Helen when they were in a bad neighborhood, he’s been mesmerised by Garrett, following her surreptitiously as she does her weekly medical errands in rough neighborhoods. Garrett and Ethan have met before, although Garrett doesn’t know Ethan’s name. Other than as secondary characters, how do these two even have anything to do with the Ravenels? Well, Ethan Ransom just so happens to have the Ravenel blue eyes. Winterborne also hires Ethan Ransom, our hero, to surveil…things…in Marrying Winterborne, but we don’t know his name until he gets involved as an agent in the nefarious doings of Devil in Spring. Winterborne is impressed and hires her to work at his clinic, where she saves the life of Pandora Ravenel in Devil in Spring. In Marrying Winterborne, she meets Winterborne just as she is on the brink of closing her practice because no one thinks a woman can competently be a doctor.
Garrett Gibson, our heroine, is the first and only female doctor in England. If you’re read any of the other Ravenels books (esp Marrying Winterborne), you’ve met our protagonists before. Overall: Come to while away a few pleasant hours, not to be blown away Plot: Spinster surgeon finds love, become embroiled in government conspiracy Heat Factor: Moderate level of historical romance-style heatĬharacter Chemistry: Sort of an odd couple, but they’re very committed to each other
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