Alex Campbell is a physician, the youngest pediatric oncologist anywhere. She’s brilliant and driven to succeed. Work fulfills her—until she meets Richard Wales and he becomes the dream she believed might never come true.
Richard Wales is the spare, not the heir, with a Navy career to develop. But when he meets Alex Campbell in Heatherton’s bookshop, he discovers he must defy far more than social convention—or risk losing the only woman who ever mattered.
De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae no longer exists. Though the oldest known copy is a thousand years old, the monk, Gildas, penned it half a millennium earlier. It contains a close-held secret. Where is the original? Gone…crumbled to dust. Or is it? And who would kill to prevent the book from coming to light?
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Sexual Content - 3/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 2/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 2/5
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Summary
A child prodigy, Alex Campbell graduated from Harvard at the age of twelve and from medical school at the age of fifteen. Now at twenty-six years of age, she is a pediatric oncology professor. While on a trip to the England, she meets Richard Wales at a rare Antique book store. Discovering this shared love of old books, their relationship begins to grow. Will it withstand Richard’s need for secrecy and Alex’s distrust because of it?
This book is definitely of the romance genre, but it has plenty of adventure, history, sabotage and humor to keep the reader intrigued. The story flows well and I enjoyed it; however, I found the main characters to be too large for life and not as believable as I would have preferred.
I recommend this book to any adult reader that enjoys a good romance with a British flair. I would not consider this a book for the younger audience given its sexual innuendos.