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Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Melanie and Mary are twin sisters. They share just about everything. However, one thing is quite different. Mary is married and desperately wants to have a baby of her own. Melanie is not married and very pregnant, a love affair gone sour. When Mary’s husband’s brother, Taylor, moves to town and is looking for a temporary place to stay while he starts his new job at the university, he meets Melanie for the first time since Mary’s wedding and he feels like it’s love at first site. That is until he sees the size of her pregnant belly. When he’s offered the spare room at Melanie’s house, his feelings are challenged even further, and soon he finds himself involved more than he thought possible and it’s not that he doesn’t want to be involved.
Susan Jean Ricci’s romance novel, His Sacred Vow, is a simple story about love and passion. The plot unravels primarily through extensive use of dialogue. Although there is some description, as in the characters’ appearances, there is very little narrative to provide the reader with a strong sense of place. The only feelings really described are those of love, passion and rejection. This makes for an easy read, without the sizzling drama that many stories like this might include. Basically, it is a very clean read. I do wonder about the title, though, as there really is not much in the story to indicate that Taylor had made, even to himself, some sort of sacred vow. Or, perhaps it’s just his determination to make Melanie his wife and her unborn baby his child?
