I must firstly apologise for the amount of time it has taken me to provide a review of this book, my health was rather bad for quite some time, something that had me in hospital on numerous occasions and simply didnt leave me with the time I once had to do what I love most.

Unfortunately that does mean I have missed the archive date for many of these books, so It would feel unjust throwing any review together without being able to pay attention to each novel properly.

However, I am now back to reading as before and look forward to sharing my honest reviews as always going forward. I thank you f0r the patience and understanding throughout x

Found this one dragging and staid, the POVs much too clunky throughout. Plus, it's a romance, yet it felt like there was zero chemistry between the hero and heroine, which is a total bummer as I just couldn't see the relationship, much less the happy ending, happen organically then

I just couldn't get into this story, I found the multitude of characters difficult to follow and engage with.

I am afraid that I just could not become involved with this story and so abandoned it before I reached the end

Engaging with a lot of character struggles
Sonja has been hired by Taylor to catalogue the items in his families recently discovered mansion but it will bring about changes in both their lives
I liked Sonja, she is good at what she does and has a veneer of being ok even when she is struggling with her past. Trust is the most important thing for her in any kind of relationship and understanding her backstory means that this makes sense and it makes her stronger as a character
Taylor has had people judge him on his past previously and this has made him wary. He is very protective of his family and wants people to like him for who he is not for what they think he can give them. He respects Sonja’s boundaries and empowers her to dictate their relationship and for me this really worked and made me start to love him
So much of this story is written from Sonja’s point of view that it can at times be hard to get a read on Taylor which made it more difficult to understand him but at the same time allowed me to see more into Sonja’s life and how she develops into the person she could be
I will admit to being a bit disappointed at the end as I really wanted to know what happens next, if they restore the building, what secrets they uncover and how it comes together but I think that’s just me and how my brain works in situations like this. I do think it would also work if this was part of a series looking at each of the siblings and how they come together restoring the mansion and as such I will be keeping an eye out for their stories
I would recommend this book to those who enjoy a romance with a lot of character development with some secrets and troubles in their past but who will push past this to become lodged in your heart

I struggled with this book; there are a lot of characters introduced from the get-go which it was hard to see how they were woven into the story. The character development was solid and you have a strong likeable core group of three at the centre of the book with close family ties. The plot meanders to an obvious conclusion and lays the groundwork for other books to lead off with the other characters in the book. A read where you need to persevere to get to the end.

Overseeing the restoration of his family's inherited estate brings him into contact with an art historian and together they cement their working relationship.

Closeness brings them into a relationship, that leads to a happy ever after ending.

I did find this story a bit to involved in the family logistics, inheritance, restoration etc and not so much on the relationship, romance story.