True As Fate: The Ashford Chronicles, Book 2
True as Fate continues the adventures of a well-born Devonshire family during the Napoleonic and Anglo-American wars. In 1813, the youngest Ashford sisters, Juliet, 20, and Chloe, 23, are both involved with handsome American Ross Trenerry, a suspected traitor on the run from British soldiers. Ross has feelings for Juliet but, when he returns to England two years later, Chloe, who has long been in love with Ross, captures his heart. The older Ashford siblings—Anthony, Deirdre, and Deirdre’s husband Kiernan—who attend to (and interfere with) the lives of their younger sisters—do not approve of Ross as a suitor. Then Juliet is kidnapped, and Ross is forced to find her, before he can clear his name.
The stock characters are too numerous and the continuing plot is too complicated for a standalone; and the story of competing sisters lacks originality. Fans are advised to begin with Book 1, My Enemy, My Heart (2016) for better enjoyment, and to meet the Ashford family, before reading True as Fate.
