A Forgotten Fall
Series: A Lord for All Seasons #3
Author: Nadine Millard
Published September 16th 2022 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.

Goodreads Synopsis
All she's ever wanted is freedom, challenge, and adventure. But the longer she spends with the wounded soldier from her past the more she realizes she might just want him.

Francesca Templeworth has never met a man that didn’t somehow disappoint her. While other girls her age dreamed of love and romance and marriage, she wanted adventure and challenges and freedom.

No man has ever held her interest. No man but Adam Fairchild, who’d gone off to war and had never come back.

Adam Fairchild has spent years running from the demons he encountered on the battlefield of war, from a past that he no longer remembers, and a present reality that feels too heavy a burden to carry. Returning to Halton he hopes to find a safe haven. What he finds instead is Francesca Templeworth, a pretty girl with a sharp wit who’s turned into a beautiful woman with a smart mouth.

All Adam wants is to hide himself away, miserable in the darkness. But he didn’t count on the most stubborn woman in all of Christendom insisting on dragging him back into the light.

Francesca can’t fight her attraction to Adam any more than Adam can fight is own to her. But until he learns to let go of the past, what hope do they have of a future together?

Adam is the one man she’s never forgotten. But the question is, will he let himself fall?
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher, via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.

Everyone who knows Francesca Templeton knows that she is adamant she won't marry. But, she's keeping a secret. Since she was young, she's harboured a crush on Adam Fairchild, the son of a neighbouring nobleman, who heads off to war and hasn't been seen from since. Presumed dead, when Adam arrives home, now the Marquess, he's forgotten just about everyone, but he remembers his 'Sunshine', particularly when Cheska refuses to let him wallow in this suffering. After an accident means that Cheska has to stay at his estate for a few weeks, both allow they high walls to crumble, and soon the attraction is too much to fight. But Adam is scarred by his past, and he feels that Francesca deserves someone less broken, less problematic as he. However, Cheska has other ideas, and Adam needs to realise that when she puts her mind to something, she's bound to succeed.

Again, every book in the series is better than the last. Cheska's story was one I was really looking forward to, and the fact that her romance was with someone from her past, was perfect for the Cheska we knew. She was headstrong, intelligent, and driven, but she hid her tendre for Adam from her nearest and dearest, but the Templeton sisters are nothing if not nosy, and they can see clearly what Adam and Cheska try to hide. Now that Gideon and Christian are fully fledged members of the family, they see themselves as brothers to Cheska, and what to protect her, but she knows best, and she won't let anyone, not least Adam, keep them apart. Adam was someone I really felt for. What he witnessed and experienced at war had changed him, and his trauma was something he couldn't see himself overcoming. When he hurts Cheska during a PTSD episode, he couldn't forgive himself, but Cheska prevailed, and slowly, Adam's demons were released, and he could see a way forward for the first time since he woke up from his injuries. Now, I just can't wait for Sophia's story, and I think that the friend Adam mentioned as also being horse mad may be her future husband!

Dates Read:
October 1-2, 2022

Rating
3 Stars