But her plans come to a screeching halt when she finds out that her father accepted money to see her wed to a complete stranger. Now she’s back and she’s this graceful young beauty that knows a thing or two about the world and she’s ready to win Paul over for her own. Whitney has come back home, no longer the annoying childish imp that used to follow Paul around all the time. She has had a serious jones for Paul ever since she was a young girl and the crush has only gotten worse over time. When she finally got back to England she was going to win the hand of her childhood crush, Paul Sevarin.
Whitney, on the other hand, already has grand plans for herself. When she goes back to England where her no good father is, he offers for her and her father is quick to take the money. So Clayton Westmoreland sees Whitney Stone when Whitney is living in France with her Aunt and Uncle and he’s quite taken with her. There are scenes and parts of this book that I absolutely LOVE but there are things and scenes in this story that I absolutely hate. Now, I guess that’s not necessarily true. Though I enjoyed this one, I didn’t necessarily love it. I was so sure that I was going to love these last two books just as much as I enjoyed the other books. There were only two books left in the pile my sister had on the bookshelf in the den by Judith McNaught. I remember reading this after I had read and loved Something Wonderful, Once & Always, Almost Heaven and A Kingdom of Dreams. It was not too long after I graduated from high school and I tried my hand at reading the many romance novels that my sister had lying around the house. I read this book for the first time way back in 1999.
But even as his smoldering passion seduces her into a gathering storm of desire, Whitney cannot - and will not - relinquish her dream of perfect love. only to be bargained away by her bankrupt father to the handsome, arrogant duke. Fresh from her triumphs in Paris society, she returned to England to win the heart of Paul, her childhood love. Under the dark, languorous eyes of Clayton Westmoreland, the Duke of Claymore, Whitney Stone grew from a saucy hoyden into a ravishingly sensual woman. Rowena’s review of Whitney, My Love by Judith McNaught.
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