Funny moment about this one. It's a US published romance novel. Dublin City Libraries collect books by and about Dublin, when I saw this one on a book buy I knew that if I bought it, it would be ordered for the collection. I grinned and bought it. I was right.

Okay I must admit I occasionally read romances to remind me how bad they can get, this was one of them, pretty bad but readable, set in Victorian Dublin, it lacks detail, there's no real feel of Dublin about it, the city could have been anywhere. I wish people would actually give you a feel for the city when they write books like this. Overall it was readable pulp (I read it mostly in the bath and it was what I needed at the time) and the characters were okay and fairly well written but it could have been anytime and anywhen.
It's all about a widow getting dumped with her husband's illegitimate children who have a sibling whose father is another man. Apparently in Irish Law at the time the man had to repudiate his right to the child to allow the child to be adopted so she approaches the father of the third child and sparks begin to fly. ( )