Victorian era Lizzie Poole had made many bad choices in her
life but running away to Australia with her brother was not one of them. In
Australia the pair met a beautiful couple that would impact their lives deeply.
Lizzie and her new friend Ria were each other’s doppelgangers; the resemblance
between the two was striking. In a tragic turn of events Lizzie looses
everything including her new best friend Ria.
Upon Ria’s deathbed she forced Lizzie promise to return to her family in
England and take her place to right all the wrongs Ria had done to her family.
Left with no other choice Lizzie went back to her native
England but this time as Ria, Lizzie Poole no longer existed. Upon her arrival
Lizzie almost lost her courage to go to Ria’s grandmother Lady Thornborough. In
a flash Lizzie was hit by a passing carriage and knocked completely out of her
senses. Almost knocked to death Lizzie
was lucky that the man in the carriage had scooped her up out of the street to
safety. Coincidently the man in the carriage was Geoffrey Somerville, Ria’s own
brother in-law that she had never met. Geoffrey ran Lizzie to the closest
friendly home he knew and that was Lady Thornborough’s grand home. Geoffrey took her to the one place she needed
to be.
Before coming to her senses Lizzie is almost immediately
taken for Ria by the household staff. Upon waking she confirms to all that she
really is Ria the runaway granddaughter of Lady Thornborough. Officially taking
Ria’s place meant that Lizzie was now part of London’s elite upper class and
not poor Lizzie from the working class. As she comes to and put everything
together she realizes that this handsome man that carried her here was actually
Ria’s brother in-law making her charade of becoming Ria even more complicated.
How long could she keep this up? Her plan was to go on indefinitely as Ria but
she suddenly finds herself falling head over heels in love with the one man Ria
was not ever meant to have.
5/5 I LOVED this novel. I happened to find this book at my
work and was so bored one night that I picked it up and gave it a go. I
literally could not put this book down. I read it in two days because the story
was more of an adventure than a love story. I would highly recommend this novel
because it was romantic in all the right ways with a flare of adventure that
added up to a real page-turner.
PG -13 Rating for mild violence
