Guest Review: To Take Her Pride – Anne Brear

To Take Her Pride by Anne Brear
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Release Date:  March 8, 2012
Publisher:   Knox Robinson Publishing
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1898 Yorkshire – Aurora Pettigrew has it all, a loving family, a nice home, a comfortable life. She’s waiting for the right man to offer her marriage, and the man for her is Reid Sinclair, heir to the Sinclair fortune and the love of her life.
But, Reid’s mother, Julia, is against the match and her ruthlessness unearths a family secret that will tear Aurora’s world apart.
Unwilling to bring shame on her family and needing answers to the allegations brought to light by Reid’s mother, Aurora begins a long journey away from home. She leaves behind all that is familiar and safe to enter a world of mean streets and poor working class.
Living in the tenements of York, surrounded by people of a class she’d never mixed with before, Aurora struggles to come to terms with the way her life has changed. By chance, she reconnects with a man from her past and before he leaves with the army to war in South Africa, he offers her security through marriage.
Aurora knows she should be happy, but the memory of her love for Reid threatens her future.
When tragedy strikes, can Aurora find the strength to accept her life and forget the past?

 Aurora, has been in love with her neighbor since she was a little girl. Pinning for him when he leaves to help expand his fathers businesses. She holds out the hope that he will return for her.

Reid, has been in love with Aurora as long as she has been in love with him. Dreams of the future the will have together.

When Reid returns, and Aurora start planning the future together. Spending as much time as possible with each other, they become even closer then they were before. Reid has to go to America, to help with his father businesses. While away his father suffers a stroke. Upon returning home he stops to visit Aurora before going back to his father side. 

After one night together, Aurora finds herself with child. 

Reid’s mother Mrs. Sinclair shows, telling her lies about Reid. and some unsettling news about her own parentage. After hearing all this she sets off to find her birth mother.

Along the way Aurora learns how to take care of herself and not to depend on others to care for her every need. At first she and her birth mother had a hard time to getting used to being with each other, and getting to know one another.

The secondary characters were amazing. Sophia, Aurora birth mother, doesn’t want Aurora in her life then quickly realizes that she build a the relationship that she always missed having with her daughter.

I especially loved Lilly Aurora’s new found best friend. I loved the way she helped Aurora and Sophia build a healthier relationship.

The way the story progressed and the characters grew into more wholesome people as a whole. I couldn’t put this book down, the plot was amazing. The characters were amazing. 

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