i have read Mcnaught's Whitney, My Love and Until You...it was great. I tried reading another book written by McNaught and i found it hard to choose from her books. I have to decided to read Almost Heaven.The story was good though Whiteny, My Love is really better. It is about Elizabeth Cameron and Ian Thornton's romance. It shows that no matter how different you are and no matter how huge trouble and problems both of you faces, you will always end up loving each other if both of you could fight for your feelings and eventually sacrifice things just to be together.
Ian was Elizabeth's enemy. He was the reason why the "ton" gets rid of her thinking that at an early age she had been flirting with Ian (who is not considered part of the elite coz he is not a Lord or something..he is merely a Mister). Rumors said that they spent an afternoon together in a cottage in the woods, which was true. Elizabeth's reputation was ruined. In her debut, she received 14 proposals from men but when that happened, there were no more proposals. Since her brother, Robert disappeared after a duel with Ian, her uncle was her guardian. His Uncle needs to find someone to marry her to save Havenhurst (they do not have money anymore for they need to pay the debts of her father and Robert's due to gambling). Letters were sent to those 14 men who proposed to her before if they would like to reconsider their proposals. Only three responded and Ian was one of them...though the response was mistakenly sent to Elizabeth's Uncle.
The mistake paved the way to once again meet the lives of Elizabeth and Ian where they ended up realizing that they still love each other. Elizabeth is a Countess and his uncle will only allow her to marry someone who belongs to the "ton". Since Ian is the only heir of of Duke of Stanhope, he accepted the title as Marquess of Kennigston just to marry Elizabeth...and they did marry.Though the reappearance of Robert caused another trouble for them, they still survived it and lived happily ever after.hehehe..
His son, Jonathon asked him the meaning of heaven and Ian said it is the place where Elizabeth and her daughter Caroline is looking at the flowers in the garden. Ian's heaven is his family. His son then said that heaven "will have what one most wanted could have" and Ian called it Almost Heaven...
The novel tells us that what other people think of you is not important. Your own happiness and the truth, which you know, is what matters. Even if Ian wasn't liked by Elizabeth's friends, servants and family, he still pursued and fought for his love. Even if things between them was very chaotic, they ended up happy together. We just need to accept things as to what they are because no doubt, better things will occur in the future in exchange of that.
Embrace life and think positive.
