“I’m certain I will talk to her, but not about you. As Bram points out, Comfort always leaves the room when Bode comes in: In fact, both Bram and Comfort are taken aback by Bram. Oh, and he’s held a secret torch for Comfort for years.Ĭomfort is surprised to learn both that Bode has had feelings for her. He loves the shipping company, has strong feelings about his dead father, tolerates his mother, and while he loves his brother, Bram, he recognizes Bram’s faults. Ostensibly they own a profitable shipping company, but the truth is that the now dead patriarch of the DeLong ran the shipping company aground and the DeLong fortunes rely upon the public appearance of wealth while Bode attempts to save the company.
Comfort has always had strong feelings for Bram but he is flighty and unreliable and no matter how much her romantic heart might yearn for an attachment with Bram this announcement shows how little care Bram has for her and her pragmatic side acknowledges that Bram will never be the partner in life she seeks.īode, or Beareguard De Long (Beau DeLong became Bode), is the eldest of the two DeLong brothers. Bram and Comfort have been long time friends but Bram’s precipitous announcement places that friendship in jeopardy.Ĭomfort has never received a proposal to Bram.
Twenty years later, Comfort Kennedy is the heir to a banking fortune and her good friend Bram DeLong decides to take advantage of this by announcing their engagement at his brother’s birthday party. Deciding that mining wasn’t a way to make a living, they begin to offer banking services and miners feel that a father figure must be trustworthy. Comfort, as they call her, ends up being the best thing that happened to Newton Prescott and Tucker Jones.
They take her with them and end up keeping her for twenty years. In the foothills of Sierra Nevada, the year 1850, two miners come upon the remains of a wagon train and in amongst a pile of rocks, they find a young girl clutching a tin of Dr. Most of your writing works well for me so it probably comes as no surprise that this is one of my favorite historicals published this month. Jane Book Reviews Agency pricing / California / Historical Romances / Jo-Goodman / Penguin / unrequited-love 16 Comments SeptemREVIEW: Kissing Comfort by Jo Goodman
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