Isadora is a wealthy heiress living in New York. When a duke from England arrives, Isadora's mother thinks he will be a perfect match; his title plus her money. The Duke behaves badly the first time he meets Isadora, and later her friends find out he has a very unsavory past. They help her escape from the match her mother is still trying to instigate, by sending her away to the wilds of Pittsburg. With an assumed name, she hopes to find a job as a housekeeper until the Duke looses interest in her. The only problem is that she doesn't know the first thing about being a housekeeper. She is hired by Ian MacKenzie to work in a large farm estate belonging to his beloved foster parents only because he has pressing business in town and she is the only candidate for the job. Her first attempts to cook and iron have disastrous results, but she keeps trying and gradually insinuates herself into the community and into Ian's heart.
As you can tell, I was ready for a break and needed something light to read. I hadn't tried Jen Turano before. It was an interesting book in that her writing style is pretty bad, but her story line was cute enough, and there were enough funny scenes, I decided to look past the really very stilted dialog and cookie cutter characters. I knew I was hooked when Izzy, her face swollen with poison ivy rash, gets "treed" on a chair by an indignant chicken. This is not the first Christian historical romance I have read that has terrible dialog. What I wonder is how they get published. Aren't there better writers out there willing to write in this genre? Maybe this style actually appeals to a certain demographic, like old ladies that wish Lawrence Welk was still on TV. It really makes me want to try to write one of my own, but with decent dialog. (2019, 368)
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