Okay. This book is right up my alley. It's a historical romance with werewolves! Yummmeee. Passionate earthly love story. This is the first in a trilogy by Susan Krinard. In reality she wrote several more linked stories after the firs three. I have them as well and will blog them. This one begins with poor 7 year old half-werewolf Cassidy losing her mother. She is alone in the American wilderness until her human uncle comes to get her. She grows up never knowing how to "change" living with people who almost fear her. Before her mother died she had written to a human woman friend and asked her to take Cassidy. The letter was never mailed, but Cassidy memorized the woman's address and when she had enough money she left her uncle's ranch and headed out to find Isabelle. Isabelle then helps Cassidy to go to England where the werewolf side of her family is. Braden Forster the Earl of Greyburn had given up finding the American side of his family and believed them dead. He was glad to see Cassidy and welcomed him into the family, but for what purpose? Braden had been charged with his grandfather to continue his "Cause". "The Cause" was a breeding program of arranged marriages between different wolf bloodlines to preserve the werepeople. Braden doesn't want her for himself but for his brother. Braden has a past that made him vow never to mate again.
Excellent storyline and wonderfully rich and simpathic characters. I really liked this book and am enjoying the second in the series which is about Braden's sister Lady Rowena.
"It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates."
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
