ADVISORY FROM THE AUTHOR: This novel contains sexual situations and adult content. It has very little history. If you like your romance novels to be light on sex scenes and heavy on the history, this isn’t the book for you. It is the sixth and final book in the Kellington series, but it’s a stand-alone novel. To catch you up….the Duke of Lynwood and his four siblings all found love. Now, … Now, it’s their friend’s turn.
When Bow Street Inspector Joseph Stapleton is sent to Oxfordshire to help the daughter of an earl, little does he know how the mission will affect him personally.
Lady Evelyn Williams must marry within weeks, but she has never met a gentleman of the ton whom she would even consider as a potential husband. Then she encounters the brave, handsome man from London.
NEVER TURN AWAY is the story of a love that defies society’s expectations. It also introduces Colin Emerson, Lord Ridgeway, whose story is told in ALWAYS COME HOME.
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A good walk on the wild side of London. Enjoyable reading.
I read it twice & thoroughly enjoyed it each time. I loved the main character’s of the book (especially the hero) & will probably read it again. It is a keeper.
This book is the story with little or no reference to the world the characters live in. Lady Evelyn must marry within a few weeks or her brother will gain control of her inheritance..
Se does not want to marry and has no prospects in sight.
Joe Stapleton is a Bow Street Runner sent to help and keep Evlyn safe. He wants to fid her the husband and return
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They agree they can work together to solve both their problems and suddemly iscover tey are in love.
Steamy sex scenes and characters you route for make this an interesting and fun read.
Loved this whole series! Highly recommend!
I liked the story, but the three other suitors and the plot to marry the heroine, and gain her property felt forced, and a bit ridiculous to me.
What an uplifting story about defying the odds, friendship, and loyalty.
Courage to take hold of your own life and search for what makes you happy.
I found myself wanting to friends with these people!
Great read!
Loved it!
I really enjoyed this book. Now I will have to go back to the first book of the series and read from there. I can’t wait to get started.
Great series
loved it
Great read.
I liked that the characters were so real. It showed what happened to the women that married a regu lasr man.
This book was just as excellent as the others in the series. Maureen Driscoll creates excellent likable (or unlikable) characters and wonderfully fictional worlds that pull the reader in and invite the reader to stay.
A detective falls for a noble lady. Very entertaining series.
I really enjoyed this book.
More like an excerpt than a book.
I require the heroine to be smart and strong, and for most of this book she was. But then, it was as if she lost all common sense and started to make stupid decisions. I realize, the writer wanted to put her in a precarious situation, but there were more imaginative ways that could have happened without making her stupid. Then, there were the villains, just make them bad and punish them.
I looked forward to this story as much as I dreaded it; it was finally time for our Stapleton, the infamous Bow Street Runner to have his HEA, but it is also to be a last Kellington book; not what I was looking forward to.
I can tell you I loved each story that has been written so far, and even though our Joseph is only an ‘honorary’ brother to the Kellington brood, his story is as well told as all the others.
The plot was well-developed and executed with clues to the villain well hidden; every character that has been introduced to us, helped the main characters come more to life; pace of the story had a steady flow and never lagged; the intimate scenes were spontaneous and sensual and bringing all the Kellington’s in to help this romantic couple out, was a stroke of genius.
But what I loved most of all was the dialogue; no matter if it was spoken or thought by our couple, Kellington’s, Evelyn’s suitors or secondary characters, I merrily chuckled from page to page.
Here is Evelyn’s thought about one of her suitors:
“One well-meaning gentleman had even told her she would be better served if she appeared to be less smart and more agreeable. She had responded by telling him he would be better served with more time spent in a library and less time dispensing asinine advice.”
In a Mrs. Trowbridge’s store [who has two daughters she’d gladly throw into Joseph’s direction], while perusing the merchandise, she spots the coin purse.
“Evelyn wagged the hideous thing about as if it were the crown jewels. “This is a fine piece of artistry. Did Anna or Marida paint the cow?”
“That, Lady Evelyn, is not a cow. It is my mother.”
Evelyn telling Joseph about the men she meets and how they would all like her to hand over her life to them, with her finances.
“I’m a lady, not an idiot.”
Here’s Lizzie talking to all the Killington’s:
“When do men ever do the right thing when it comes to romance?” asked Lizzie.
“What about when I offered to marry you?”
“You are only proving my point, albeit wholly unintentionally. That was the most bloodless proposal I have ever heard. You offered to take Liam’s damaged sister off his hands, as if offering to take in a troublesome cur.”
“There were similarities,” said Ned.
“And you, nodcock, were unable to find the woman you loved for seven long years. And you, Arthur, almost lost Vanessa because you were afraid of a Romany prophesy.”
“What about me?” asked Hal.
“If I were to list your mistakes, we would be here all day. The point is we must find a way to bring Evelyn and Joseph together and, if you insist, I suppose we can leave poison and drugging out of it.”
Between the servants of all these households, and the Kellington’s, our couple had no chance in hell of staying apart.
Bottom line, this was a wonderful ending to a wonderful series. I loved every moment spent with all the characters, from little Vi and her parents, Ned and Jane; Marcus and Lizzie; Arthur and Vanessa; Hal and Melanie; Liam and Rosalind, and now Joseph and his Evelyn, and I’ll be sure to visit with them often in the years to come.
Melanie for b2b
Enjoyed this book. Rich aristocratic lady falls for detective who is protecting her.