On the last afternoon of Susanna’s holiday, they end up making love – and he is stunned when she refuses his later offer of marriage. Yet in spite of her determination to dislike him, she soon finds herself unbending towards the young viscount and the pair strikes up a deep and genuine friendship that is very quickly on the verge of being more.Įven though Peter keeps telling himself that he needs to keep away from Susanna and that he must not seem to be singling her out, he is drawn to her intelligence and spirit and can’t stop thinking about her. She’s happy with her life, but seeing Peter again stirs up old wounds and memories of things she’d rather forget. Having completed her education, she stayed on as a teacher.
Susanna was orphaned by the age of twelve, and was taken in at Miss Martin’s School as a Charity Girl.
Now, he wants to make his own choice – and it’s clear to the listener that he needs to assert himself more in other areas, too – but isn’t ready to do so just yet. Five years ago, at the age of twenty-one, he dutifully fell in love with and proposed to the young lady that had been chosen for him, only to break things off shortly before the wedding, earning himself a reputation as a callous jilt in the process. He knows what his overbearing mother and five older sisters would like him to do – get married to a young woman of his mother’s choice and start populating his nursery, but Peter isn’t prepared to go down that road again. Peter is an open-hearted, kind young man with a sunny disposition, whose only problem seems to be that he isn’t quite sure what to do with his life. Her family and the viscount’s are linked by tragedy and she has no wish to become further acquainted with a man who seems to have been able to brush off the past so easily. He, however, does not recognise Susanna from that long-ago summer afternoon when they met and played together, and she does not welcome his devastating smile and his flirtatious compliments.
While on a visit to Frances, Countess of Edgecombe ( Simply Unforgettable), Susanna is introduced to Viscount Whitleaf and his name sends a chill of recognition through her. It’s the story of Susanna Osbourne, another of the group of friends who are teachers at Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath, and Peter Edgeworth, Viscount Whitleaf, who met each other briefly – once – when they were children, but whose lives have taken them in very different directions since then. While I’ve enjoyed the previous two books in this series, Simply Magic is my favourite so far.
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