The Lost Letter

A Victorian Romance

By: Mimi Matthews

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

A PROUD BEAUTY

When the tragic death of her gamester father leaves her destitute and alone, society beauty Sylvia Stafford finds work as a governess in a merchant's household in Cheapside. Isolated from the fashionable acquaintance of her youth, she resigns herself to lonely spinsterhood...until a mysterious visitor convinces her to temporarily return to her former life - and her former love.

A SCARRED BEAST

Colonel Sebastian Conrad is no longer the dashing cavalry officer Sylvia once fell in love with. Badly scarred during the Sepoy Rebellion, he has withdrawn to his estate in rural Hertfordshire where he lives in near complete seclusion. Brooding and tormented, he cares nothing for the earldom he has inherited - and even less for the faithless beauty who rejected him three years before.

A SECOND CHANCE

A week together in the remote Victorian countryside is the last thing either of them ever wanted. But when fate intervenes to reunite them, will a beastly earl and an impoverished beauty finally find their happily-ever-after? Or are some fairy-tale endings simply not meant to be?

©2017 Mimi Matthews (P)2018 Tantor

Excellent narration /excellent love story

I am really enjoying Mimi Matthews’s stories. There is not one I do not like.
Justine is an excellent narrator and listening to the audio of this book has been a delight.

Good, quick story

A good quick passionate story it got straight to the point not a lot of side stuff I liked it. Justine it’s not my favorite, but she did OK.

Sweet novella

Very sweet second chance novella. Excellent narrator. Helped me through a morning of chores. Thanks.

Scarred but not forgotten

London and Hertfordshire, England 1860

Main Characters
Sebastian Conrad, Earl of Radcliffe: Severely scarred during the war
Lady Julia Harker: Sebastian's younger sister
Sylvia Stafford: The love of Sebastian's life

This was a bit longer than a novella, but to me it was the perfect length for a story that spanned only about three weeks.

A busybody younger sister (Lady Harker) wants to see her older brother happy, but since the war and his disfigurement Sebastian's become a recluse. So she plotted to bring Sylvia, his old love, to a month-long visit with her to his home in the country.

Wow, sparks! And not good ones. If Sylvia hadn’t been trained to not react she would have had quite a few excuses to slap him good. She had reason to be angry with him, as he had reason to be angry with her. But he was just awful, while she just took it.

What they didn’t know was neither had the whole truth.

Loved this book. Fun, enlightening, very well written, as Ms. Matthews' books always are.

One or two slight swears, and many references to swearing either aloud or under one’s breath. But the rest was clean and all in all very enjoyable.

LOVED THIS!

This was so good and I am not even a big romance reader any longer. Narrator was great.