Only a promise by Mary Balogh

Mass Market Paperback, 400 pages

Published June 9th 2015 by Signet

Series: The Survivors' Club #5

Historical romance

Own

This turned out to be very dull.

I did like it at first, because it felt real. 2 people who do not know each other enters a marriage of convenience. Their first time is real. No sudden great passion. Just lying back and thinking of England.

But I never felt they them fall in love, as this is a romance and they would.

Instead it was dull.

He had his issues, she had her issues *yawn* Disappointing

Ralph Stockwood prides himself on being a leader, but when he convinced his friends to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, he never envisioned being the sole survivor. Racked with guilt over their deaths, Ralph must move on . . . and find a wife to secure an heir to his family's title and fortune.

Since her Seasons in London ended in disaster, Chloe Muirhead is resigned to spinsterhood. Driven by the need to escape her family, she takes refuge at the home of her mother's godmother, where she meets Ralph. He needs a wife. She wants a husband. So Chloe makes the outrageous suggestion to strike a bargain and get married. One condition: Ralph has to promise that he will never take her back to London. But circumstances change. And to Ralph, it was only a promise.