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Eden Fleming thinks that she is in love with her cousin Cornelius Fleming. They become engaged she looks forward to her upcoming marriage. She doesn't question him when he becomes impatient and insists that they head for Gretna Green. They spend the night at an inn nearby, where her father catches up to them. She overhears them and finds out that her father has sold her to a man who just wants her to have a child for him to take to his family. She rushes into the room to find out that Cornelius isn't a man at all, but a fairy from the forest near her father's estate. She is horrified and runs away. After the birth of her child, who she is told has died, her father finds a man willing to marry her. As expected, he is not much good and gambles and wenches away all of his money and much of hers before he dies. All Eden has left is the estate where she met Cornelius. She and her aunt move there and find everything in disrepair. She is determined to rebuild her life and her estate. Her late husband told her that her child was alive and miraculously he is at the estate when she arrives. Unfortunately, so is Cornelius, who wants his child and revenge. He now has changed his appearance and goes by the name of Shaw. He finds that he can't be angry at her and is finding that he has very unfanelike feelings for both his son and his mother.
The author has painted a very vivid picture of the time period and the lore of the forest lords. The storyline is engrossing and is resolved nicely in the end. Great story.


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The Forest Lord The Fane Book 1 Susan Krinard 9780425186862 Books Reviews

Herne is the forest lord of the legendary Fane, or faery world. He couldn't be with others of his ilk until he presents them a halfling child born of himself and a human woman to strengthen the weakened fane blood line. When the Earl of Bradwell breaks the age-old rule of not hunting in the forest protected by the Forest Lord, Herne agrees to let the Earl live if he agrees to let Herne marry his daughter. In order to save himself, the Earl agrees with the provision that Herne must present himself to Eden as a human and woo her, without trickery, into falling in love with him.
The young, Lady Eden is presented to a handsome man introduced to her as Cornelius Fleming, a cousin from India. He woos her, she falls in love, and he convinces her to run to Gretna with him to be married but they stop and consummate the pairing before marriage. The earl catches up to them before the marriage and through foul means manages to trick the Forest Lord into revealing his true appearance to Eden who is at once, devastated, fleeing in horror, then finds out later she is pregnant.
Eden bears the child who she is told was still-born at birth, then she is shipped off to London to an arranged marriage to a minor noble who turns out to be a rake who uses her, and gambles away all her money, then finally, taunting her that her son was alive, did her the great favor of dying. Alone, with just her faithful Aunt Claudia, Eden returns to the only un-entailed property she owns, Hartsmere. It is there she finds her beautiful son Donal and she is fully intent upon becoming a good mother.
Six years have passed, the Forest Lord, awakens and returns as well to find Eden who has just come home to Hartsmere. He also discovers he was lied to and his son still lives. His hatred knows no bounds and he will punish the woman who tried to cheat him of his child before he ultimately takes him away. Only, as he weaves his way into Eden's life, he finds that his hatred is not as strong as a very new feeling - normally foreign to a fane - could it be love?
This is the first book I've read by this author and I found it to be a wonderfully magical, mystical, and sensual read. You will feel the betrayal of the unsuspecting Eden, by those she trusted to be every bit as devastating as one could imagine, as well as being caught up in the heart-stopping, cliff hanging and surprise ending. The pace through out the book was non-stop with a wonderful cast of secondary characters adding to a complete feel of contentment over this great read! Another one for the keeper shelf!
When I begin a book, I almost always read to the end, if for no other reason than to search for reasons why someone published it. The Forest Lord was a first for me, in that it is ostensibly a romance, but turned out to be anything but. The Hero, a faerie without emotion, purportedly, was angry throughout the entire book. If I ran the forest, I think I would be in a better mood. A new complication was introduced on almost every other page. By the middle of the book, I had lost the will to live. I skipped a bit, but when I read near the end, I knew I would have to read it all to know what was going on. So back to the middle I go. I so wanted this story to work out; I love fairy tales. But near the end, the story was so horrific, I was stunned by it. It was violent and shattering. Not something I would expect in a romance. I wondered if Ms. Krinard was going through a divorce when she wrote it.

I do not want to indicate that the writer was bad; she certainly has talent. And I did read until the end. I am just suggesting that the book would have been better suited to another genre, perhaps fantasy. I would not like to run into another like it on the romance shelves.
A fun book. Lots of twists and turns. Happy ending. Great dealing with .
This is a typical fairy tale plot told in a pedestrian manner. The characters are rather flat. I found it disappointing having read and been impressed with one of the author's short stories.
Such a lovely sappy paranormal historical romance. Wow, you don't see that very often! Yes this tale is reminiscent of childhood fairy tales and the ending was a little too pat. But notwithstanding those foibles, this story was sooo romantic. Lord Hern, a powerful fae incapable of love or feeling, planned to entice a innocent young woman to bear his child so that he may return to his own world. The hero's plan is thwarted by a terrible lie told to both the fae lord and the heroine. The hero comes back to claim his child, so that he may return to the land of the fae, but he finds he is still attracted to the heroine. If you love fairy tales and sappy romances, you NEED this book!
Eden Fleming thinks that she is in love with her cousin Cornelius Fleming. They become engaged she looks forward to her upcoming marriage. She doesn't question him when he becomes impatient and insists that they head for Gretna Green. They spend the night at an inn nearby, where her father catches up to them. She overhears them and finds out that her father has sold her to a man who just wants her to have a child for him to take to his family. She rushes into the room to find out that Cornelius isn't a man at all, but a fairy from the forest near her father's estate. She is horrified and runs away. After the birth of her child, who she is told has died, her father finds a man willing to marry her. As expected, he is not much good and gambles and wenches away all of his money and much of hers before he dies. All Eden has left is the estate where she met Cornelius. She and her aunt move there and find everything in disrepair. She is determined to rebuild her life and her estate. Her late husband told her that her child was alive and miraculously he is at the estate when she arrives. Unfortunately, so is Cornelius, who wants his child and revenge. He now has changed his appearance and goes by the name of Shaw. He finds that he can't be angry at her and is finding that he has very unfanelike feelings for both his son and his mother.
The author has painted a very vivid picture of the time period and the lore of the forest lords. The storyline is engrossing and is resolved nicely in the end. Great story.