A Warriner to Tempt Her

A Warriner To Tempt Her is the third book in The Wild Warriners series and is based on Dr. Joe Warriner. Oh be still my heart, Joe is definitely in the running to being one of my favorite Warriner brothers!  Joe is the quiet, level-headed third brother and in this story, he has already become a doctor and established his office. He is a good, kind man who is dedicated to his patients and his profession. He also has chosen to take a more modern approach to his practice than to continue to follow the ideas from the Dark Ages. What a fabulous hero he is! Lady Isabella (Bella) Beaumont and her family are in the country for the summer to help Bella overcome a traumatizing incident. Circumstances bring Joe and Bella together and Bella ends up helping Joe in his practice.  Virginia Heath has a wonderful way of creating characters that you really get connected with and I couldn't help but love these two from the very beginning. The romance between Joe and Bella grew gradually from respect to friendship to both wanting something more. It was wonderful to watch Bella gradually overcome her fears and start to trust Joe and become the woman she was before the incident. I can't imagine a better couple more deserving and so compatible as these two! A beautiful romance and a fascinating story on the medical situation of the era kept me up until the wee hours of the night. Highly recommend this book and series!

Every Tuesday and Friday for the past twenty eight days, Dr Joe Warriner sat in his surgery, waiting to glimpse to woman of his dreams: the incandescent Lady Clarissa Beaumont. Instead that fateful day, her sister Isabella was alone. The dour, bookish and foreboding “Bella” Joe had seen hugging the walls at assemblies. But Bella had noticed the handsome doctor, were it not for the London “incident”, Bella could entertain wishes… I have reached the conclusion that it has become impossible for me to review a book by Virginia Heath without making a complete and utter fool of myself, because I am entirely overwhelmed by Ms. Heath’s brilliance; by her boundless creativity; the sheer splendour of her incomparable prose; her deeply human characters; her sensitivity to human suffering; and her unparalleled storytelling abilities. I have raved about the two previous instalments of The Wild Warriners, and A WARRINER TO TEMPT HER might be the best of the three; it is such an outstanding series, I honestly couldn’t tell unless I read them all again. Dr Joe Warriner is a brilliant physician and a hopeless romantic fool; a consummate professional and clueless when it comes to women; and overall, a supremely delightful hero. Bella, who was once as dazzling as her sister, is a shell of her former self; she has been hurt badly, and seldom has it felt more gratifying to witness a person heal; what a beautiful character! And what a gorgeous, breathtaking romance theirs is; let me swoon! Virginia Heath has done an inordinate amount of research into the state of medicine in Regency England, which made A WARRINER TO TEMPT HER positively enthralling on several fronts: the stubbornness of many medical professionals when faced with modernity; the appalling treatments for some maladies (I still shiver at the mention of hysteria); and the deadly consequences of the sheer stupidity of clinging to superstitions. Not to mention, of course, the injustice of banning women from studying medicine. While it is not necessary to have read the previous books in the series, readers familiar with A Warriner to Rescue Her will smile fondly at the mention of “Orange Blossom” and shout with unadulterated glee at the consequences of small-mindedness. Oh but that was ever so satisfying; I certainly did not see it coming, and it was a stroke of genius! Might as I try, I will never be able to do justice to the splendour that is A WARRINER TO TEMPT HER, so I will conclude with this: if you love historical romance, you need to read this book, or any book by Virginia Heath, because I’m not quite sure if anyone can do it better. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book.