With his current financial worries, Tom is in no position to marry and therefore fights his attraction to Vicky.įate intercedes and the two keep crossing paths in London.
As the new Lord Halworth, Tom hopes to save his family holdings by establishing a European-style hotel in London, and he goes there to seek investors. He was guarded, cautious, and it seemed not altogether honest.” What she doesn’t know is that the Sherbornes’ finances are a shambles, and Tom’s spendthrift younger brother Charles is no help. Vicky was “…not at all certain she liked this new Tom. Until their dramatic encounter, he and Vicky hadn’t seen each other since his return, and things are awkward between them. Aside from the neighboring Astons, Tom has only miserable remembrances about his family estate. A year ago, his father died and Tom reluctantly returned to his childhood home after having been banished for the last years of Lord Halworth’s life. Tom Sherborne is the book’s other protagonist, with the story told alternately from his point of view and Vicky’s. “Most of the gentlemen she’d met were decidedly narrow-minded when it came to females interfering in what they considered the male sphere.” Very reluctantly, Vicky agrees to put herself forward in the London marriage mart and settle for a suitable husband rather than waiting to fall in love. (More about the “family crisis” later, too.) She’s not enthusiastic and for good reason. Vicky’s independent spirit becomes an issue when a family crisis necessitates that she marry as soon as possible. Indeed, whenever Vicky’s life is at risk, she’s an active participant in saving herself. ” Rather than leaving all the heroics to Tom, Vicky takes off on her horse in pursuit of the villain. And just because ordinary events occur during the majority of one’s life, that doesn’t stop the unexpected from happening at a moment’s notice.
(More about Tom later.) “Just because sensational events happen in novels, that doesn’t mean they cannot happen. In the first chapter, Vicky is attacked by a masked assailant who’s prevented from delivering a killing blow by Tom’s fortuitous arrival. … Did she have any idea how fanciful she sounded? How naive? How would she ever survive in the cruel world with such notions? ” As her childhood playmate Tom Sherborne observes: “She was still very much like the girl he remembered who’d believed in fairy stories, except now she believed in the novels of some Miss Austen. Set in 1817 Regency England, Dangerous Alliance has a teen-aged heroine who is a devotee of Jane Austen’s first published novels.
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