![]() ![]() ![]() Both have reputations that preceed them – she is thought to be the mistress of the owner of a successful gaming hell and he is known to be rigid and cold, having lost his spark since his fiance was killed two years earlier in a riding accident. Then Came You is the story of Lily Lawson, a seemingly decadent woman who is determined that her sister not be forced by their parents into a loveless marriage with Lord Alex Raiford. And, how did someone who hadn’t yet become a mother know so well the fears, longing, and love we mothers have for our children? Perhaps I fell in love with it as well because I was a new mother, and the pathos of the story is, in great part, derived from mother love.Īfter meeting the author last year, I was even more impressed by the book because, when she wrote it, Lisa Kleypas was a fairly sheltered young woman who hadn’t experienced much of the passion so wonderfully expressed. ![]() Different than most of the romances I’d read, it featured a heroine more tortured than the hero, a so-called “fallen” woman with a wicked reputation. I first read Then Came You back in 1993, shortly after discovering romance, and it is one of the reasons I fell in love with the genre. Then Came You (A LLB favorite) By Lisa Kleypas, 1993, European Historicalįollowed by Dreaming of You and Against All Odds from the anthology Where’s My Hero? ![]()
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