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Title: Seasons of Change

Subtitle: Loring-Abbott Series Volume 2

Author: Elizabeth Johns

Narrator: Vanessa Johansson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-15

Publisher: Elizabeth Johns

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Lord Vernon and Lady Beatrice Chalcroft had been betrothed since childhood. However, unlike most arranged marriages, Vernon had loved Beatrice since the first time he saw her. The season they should have been married found the relationship severed by jealousy and pride.

Lady Beatrice was sent away from home to reform her spiteful behavior, and finds herself reduced from a duke's daughter to a life of service in Scotland trying to learn the ways of the less privileged. Lord Vernon, hurt and determined to forgo love, decides to move on with an unemotional marriage of convenience.

Will the two find their way back together again? Or will Vernon choose another bride first? Will Beatrice be able to humble herself and reform her hurtful, spoiled ways?

Members Reviews:

Beatrice gets her reward.

This book was sooooo good!! When I first started reading and realized the heroine of this story is actually the villain of the last book I almost stopped reading. I hate it when that happens since I have usually worked up quite a dislike for the person by then and can't accept the fact that they could have a nice side. Well, Beatrice has to face such awful situations it is easy to feel sorry for her and as she progresses in learning she is not the center of the world; and her changes are so valid you can't help but admire her.

Beatrice had the misfortune of being born to the worse parents in the world. Her father tends to pull away from people when he is upset and her mother is the most jealous, vindictive, and annoying woman in the Ton. So poor Beatrice is ignored by her father and overwhelmed by her mother who molds her to be exactly like herself. Then when Beatrice acts like her mother expects her to, her father goes off and decides she needs to be sent to a convent as punishment. Her lifelong friend and hopeful fiance doesn't want her sent away to a convent so he suggests her father send her to the fiance's hunting lodge in Scotland, which part of it is being turned into an orphanage. The fiance's Aunt Mary is there supervising the changes that need to be made and can supervise Beatrice until she is ready to return to London. It should only take a couple of weeks for Beatrice, traveling alone on public mail coaches and such, to see what life is like on the other side and appreciate what her family has given her. Her father agrees to this plan but arranges for someone to be secretly following her at all times so she won't get into danger. (Her father tries to control everything.)

When Beatrice finally arrives at the orphanage there is some miscommunication. Turns out Aunt Mary and Beatrice's mother were rivals when they were younger and both of them hate the other. Aunt Mary expects Beatrice to be just like her mother and is very cold toward her. All the staff think Beatrice is some rich family's spoiled daughter who got into trouble (sexually) and was sent to Scotland to hide it. So they have no reason to like her or help her.