The Skeptical Heart

by Teresa DesJardien

Book Overview

Widowed young, Augustine turns aside unhappiness by playing matchmaker, a skill she excels at among the ton.Joseph, Lord Sumner, already has a history with Augustine, a neighbor and former friend; his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082175355X
• ISBN13: 9780821753552
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Read

I, too, think this was a very well written story. I particularly liked how writer methodicaly set the scenes to explain what the true "love" is. I often found a lot of romance books used the word "love" so frequently that it almost lost its true meaning and value; it has deeper feeling than just "fall in love" with pretty faces, and a good marriage is based on the understanding of all the elements that becomes "love". I have read few books written by Ms. DesJardien, so far I liked them all. She has a way to tell a story in an old fashioned, non-flashy manner, she also has a keen sense of analyzing human behaviors so each characters became a real person instead just a fairy tale. I recommend this book.

Nice classic Regency Romance.

Augustine Wayfield is the ton's preeminent matchmaker - she has an unerring ability to find the exact right person for anyone who wishes to marry. She's only made two mistakes - the match she made for Lord Sumner (to a cold and frivolous woman) and the match she made for herself (to a man who never loved her). Now she is a widow and Lord Sumner a widower and despite his disastrous first marriage, Lord Sumner (who wants a mother for his son) asks Augustine to find him a second wife and she agrees. Of course, Augustine soon realizes that she might be having such a difficult time finding him a wife because she's fallen in love with him herself. The Skeptical Heart is a very well-done Regency Romance, the kind they don't publish much anymore. Both main characters are very interesting and well drawn. Sumner is one of my favorite kinds of heroes - grumpy, humorous, and ultimately very well-meaning. Augustine is extremely intelligent and kind and together they have a lot of nice interludes and conversations. This is a good book to escape with for a few hours.