Living in the shadow of her beautiful, effervescent cousin, Alicia, was the kind of life that Miss Rebecca Turner came to expect. She didn’t begrudge Alicia until one day when she meets the handsome and kind Dr. Jared Cooper. He is completely taken by Alicia and asks Rebecca to be the courier of his messages in exchange for seeing her sick mother as his patient. Rebecca finds herself in a quandary as Alicia turns up her fickle nose and refuses to write Jared. If she doesn’t respond, Rebecca’s mother will not get the care she needs from Dr. Cooper. And so begins the correspondence between “Alicia” (who is really Rebecca) and Jared.
I love the wallflower who gets a happy ending and Ms. Stockton wrote a story that does this so well. Jared begins to realize he may have been wrong about the “angel” he thought Alicia was and the real gem, Rebecca, is hiding behind her continuously smudged glasses. Including this as part of the story showed the loving and caring nature of Jared as he cleans Rebecca’s glasses for her quite often.
Rebecca was sweet and selfless as she put the needs of her mother before hers. She takes care of her mother and concedes to Alicia’s whims. Rebecca would be the kind of young lady that you would want for a relative or friend.
I highly recommend this clean and heartwarming story in the Sons of Somerset series. While you can read it as a standalone, the opening scene of the cricket match is all the richer since it shows a different perspective than that of the other three books.
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