“This is a powerful book, filled with emotions, and the reader will feel every one of them. Balogh lifts the ordinary up to the extraordinary.” By showing this kind of compassion as another aspect of love, Ms. Both Lauren and Kit carry heavy emotional burdens and the gift they give to one another is to free themselves from their pasts. “Supreme storyteller Mary Balogh has taken a common plotline (betrothal of convenience) and infused it with remarkable characters and added great emotional depth. Note too that A Summer to Remember introduces the Bedwyn family and leads to the six-part Slightlyseries and the four-part Simply series. Gwen, Lady Muir, Neville’s sister and Lauren’s best friend, has her story told in The Proposal, which is also the first book of the seven-part Survivors’ Club series. Note that Neville, the Earl of Kilbourne’s story is told in One Night for Love. It becomes a memorable summer indeed as these two wounded souls challenge each other to face their demons, and as they reluctantly fall in love with each other.”” When he and Lauren meet and, after an unpromising start to their relationship, agree to a temporary betrothal, he also agrees to give her a summer to remember at his father’s estate.

There is a dark side to Kit, secret wounds few people know about. But when his father summons him home to marry the lady with whom Kit had once been in love, he rebels and vows to find his own wife. He seems intent upon squeezing as much pleasure from life as possible. Kit Butler, Viscount Ravensberg, has built a reputation for reckless rakishness since his return from the Peninsular Wars. She has turned in on herself as a result of all this rejection, and is determined to live alone and be beholden to no one. She expected to marry the son of the house, Neville Wyatt, Earl of Kilbourne, but she was abandoned at the altar when it was discovered that he had a wife still living. She was brought up in the home of her stepfather’s family. Lauren Edgeworth was deserted by her mother when she was just a small child.

Remember me mary balogh