This is the second book in the story of the vicar's three mistreated daughters. I enjoyed the first book, Practical Widow to Passionate Mistress in which Meg unknowingly elopes with her already married childhood sweetheart to follow the drum. In this book Arabella Shelly was very lucky after being seduced and left pregnant by a vicount and to have found happiness and respectability with the vicount's brother and heir. It was a sweet love story of a fallen woman who found love and marriage in a time when she could have been so mistreated. It was well written and kept up my interest throughout the book. It was predictable but for lovers of regency romance books-- that is good. You grow with Bella as she learns to be a Viscountess and face the trials of marriage in a time without Dr. Phil to explain life's intricacies of an abusive relationship with a bully for a father and a blended family. Louise Allen, as ever, spins a good story. I am waiting for the next in the series, Innocent Courtesan to Adventurer's Bride to find out what happened to the third daughter of the hateful, overbearing vicar.