Kenneth, the Earl of Haverford, and his three friends, Rex, Viscount Rawley ( Indiscreet), Nathaniel Gascoigne, and Eden, Lord Pelham, have all sold out of the army and returned home to England where, in the way of young gentlemen, they are living the high life, celebrating the fact that they’ve survived the Napoleonic Wars intact by living lives of cheerful debauchery. Thus, his return to his Cornwall estate following his years of army service is an extremely unwelcome shock. Indeed, for most of the book, Moira professes to hate Kenneth Woodfall, believing him to have been responsible, albeit indirectly, for the death of her brother some years earlier. In Unforgiven (originally published in 1998), the second book in her Horseman trilogy, Mary Balogh shows herself to be one such author, as she introduces us to Miss Moira Hayes, a young woman who is so intractable and determined to protect herself and her emotions that she almost loses her chance at happiness with the man she (won’t admit she) loves. It’s a brave author who decides to write a novel in which one of the central characters is infuriatingly stubborn, who frequently, as the saying goes, cuts off her nose to spite her face, and who, because of those things is often downright unlikeable.
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