Her mother died, and a gaming club being no place to raise a young girl, her father allowed her mother’s family to reclaim her. She’s the daughter of a well-born lady who ran off with Ivo Jenner, owner of a gaming club (who readers may remember as a secondary character in one of Kleypas’s Regency novels, Dreaming of You). She’s also, as we had hints of earlier but have confirmed in Devil in Winter, the victim of substantial abuse from her family. Through the first two books, Evie is the shyest of the Wallflowers, victim of a pronounced stutter which makes conversation painful - all the moreso when she’s nervous, which, of course, she is around precisely the men she’s meant to be attracting. I felt less personal resonance with her, though she did remind me of people I’ve known.īut really, that Kleypas crafted her in that way was masterful. As for Evie, well, I had nothing against her, but she faded into the background of the first two Wallflowers novels - the most wallflowery of the wallflowers, as it were. Vincent in the earlier books, but after his abduction of Lillian at the end of It Happened One Autumn, I really wasn’t sure how I felt about a kidnapper and potential rapist serving as the hero of the novel. This book surprised me when I first read it, I recall. Spoiler Warning: For the events at the end of It Happened One Autumn Title: The Devil in Winter (Wallflowers #3)
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