Cheesecake’s Reviews > A Temporary Betrothal > Status Update

He confesses to her father, after returning after the end of the napoleonic wars (5 months after their unconsumated bitter wedding eve.), that he never actually bedded deirdre.

Belinda is a great character, compassionate and kind, but not a doormat. She does get the shit end of the stick A LOT. Her father finally takes notice of her after he's allowed her spirit to be trampled for years, only to send her to her selfish cow of a cousin, dierdre.There she meets the captain again, but he doesn't remember helping her when she was 15 (now 20). He's besotted by dierdre. The sister-in-law arrives