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# The Maid of Fairbourne Hall: A Forced Proximity Historical Regency Romance Novel

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Review: A Inspiring story - Great story. Full of intrigue and hope. Laughter at times. Engaging characters and God’s plans intertwined. Couldn’t put it down.
Review: Great book all around - I liked the premise of this book, and liked even more that the heroine actually grew up in the book and her world view changed. A few points to know, the heroine needs just 3 months of safety until she reaches her birthday and can then get her inheritance and not have to worry about her step father trying to marry her off to his nephew so he can control the money. The hero of the story is a man who seems to have lived under his older brother's shadow. Considering his older brother will one day have a title, this isn't something that is shocking, so the younger brother (the hero) has known from a young age he is going to have to make his own way in the world, so he has been trying to become a good business man, and for the most part succeeding despite the objections by his father, and his brother's attempt to just keep spending money they don't have. The hero and heroine meet about 2-3 years before the book starts out and are courting, then the heroine meets the hero's older brother and throws him over for the title. However, the older brother is just a flirt and has no intention of having any honorable intentions towards any woman for a very long time. Unfortunately for the heroine she doesn't realize this for a very long time because she is basically a vain and self absorbed woman until she overhears her step father telling his nephew to get her consent to wed her even if he has to compromise her to do it. Now the hero's older brother probably would have helped her through marriage if he had known about the inheritance but the heroine's mother and father (real one not the step father) decided not to let it be known because they didn't want to deal with fortune hunters. They also figured because of her beauty her getting married wouldn't be a problem. So the heroine runs away with a maid who has just been sacked, because the heroine stole money and the maid was blamed, but since the heroine can't go back she basically screws the maid over (like I said the woman was vain and self absorbed and really only cared about herself, her brother and sister and her mother, everyone else could go hang) because heroine will not tell the truth. But she does write the maid a glowing reference that allows her to get a job. Through a series of events that I will not get into, the heroine ends up working in the house of the hero as a maid, it is very grueling work, and since the heroine has never worked a day in her life, this is a very new experience, which also opens her eyes to how servants are treated and how thankless their jobs are. During this experience she really starts to change and becomes a more compassionate person towards others and starts to put their comforts above her own. She also learns while at the house just how unworthy the older brother is and how worthy the younger brother is. She realizes that she has probably burned the bridge with the younger brother, but still holds out hope that maybe one day he will be able to forgive her and get back together. This is a christian book and I didn't feel the characters had to force this, it was part of their being, even if they weren't necessarily good christians (I mean who is?) but you could tell they sincerely wanted to follow Christ, just sometimes were at a loss. I really enjoyed this book, and I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys a good christian based historical novel, with a little bit of romance thrown in.

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| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #550,297 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #275 in Christian Historical Fiction (Books) #1,216 in Religious Historical Fiction (Books) #1,351 in Christian Historical Romance |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,943 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Inspiring story
*by W***D on February 9, 2026*

Great story. Full of intrigue and hope. Laughter at times. Engaging characters and God’s plans intertwined. Couldn’t put it down.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book all around
*by A***S on May 14, 2014*

I liked the premise of this book, and liked even more that the heroine actually grew up in the book and her world view changed. A few points to know, the heroine needs just 3 months of safety until she reaches her birthday and can then get her inheritance and not have to worry about her step father trying to marry her off to his nephew so he can control the money. The hero of the story is a man who seems to have lived under his older brother's shadow. Considering his older brother will one day have a title, this isn't something that is shocking, so the younger brother (the hero) has known from a young age he is going to have to make his own way in the world, so he has been trying to become a good business man, and for the most part succeeding despite the objections by his father, and his brother's attempt to just keep spending money they don't have. The hero and heroine meet about 2-3 years before the book starts out and are courting, then the heroine meets the hero's older brother and throws him over for the title. However, the older brother is just a flirt and has no intention of having any honorable intentions towards any woman for a very long time. Unfortunately for the heroine she doesn't realize this for a very long time because she is basically a vain and self absorbed woman until she overhears her step father telling his nephew to get her consent to wed her even if he has to compromise her to do it. Now the hero's older brother probably would have helped her through marriage if he had known about the inheritance but the heroine's mother and father (real one not the step father) decided not to let it be known because they didn't want to deal with fortune hunters. They also figured because of her beauty her getting married wouldn't be a problem. So the heroine runs away with a maid who has just been sacked, because the heroine stole money and the maid was blamed, but since the heroine can't go back she basically screws the maid over (like I said the woman was vain and self absorbed and really only cared about herself, her brother and sister and her mother, everyone else could go hang) because heroine will not tell the truth. But she does write the maid a glowing reference that allows her to get a job. Through a series of events that I will not get into, the heroine ends up working in the house of the hero as a maid, it is very grueling work, and since the heroine has never worked a day in her life, this is a very new experience, which also opens her eyes to how servants are treated and how thankless their jobs are. During this experience she really starts to change and becomes a more compassionate person towards others and starts to put their comforts above her own. She also learns while at the house just how unworthy the older brother is and how worthy the younger brother is. She realizes that she has probably burned the bridge with the younger brother, but still holds out hope that maybe one day he will be able to forgive her and get back together. This is a christian book and I didn't feel the characters had to force this, it was part of their being, even if they weren't necessarily good christians (I mean who is?) but you could tell they sincerely wanted to follow Christ, just sometimes were at a loss. I really enjoyed this book, and I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys a good christian based historical novel, with a little bit of romance thrown in.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I would have loved it, but...
*by A***W on January 3, 2012*

Since I got my Kindle a number of years ago, I've read a number of free or very cheap Kindle books, one of them being Julie Klassen's The Apothecary's Daughter, which I found well written and quite interesting. This sparked my interest in this author, and since then, I've purchased The Girl in the Gatehouse and now this title, The Maid of Fairbourne Hall. I often enjoy reading books with romance and a good plot, and this one seemed like it would be particularly up my alley as it contained the popular elements of things not being what they appear, and people able to transform their characters, which leads to the all the different ways you can imagine revelation and surprise. My favorite Bible stories are the story of Joseph sold into slavery by his brothers, and the prodigal son returning, completely changed in attitude, expecting little, but receiving much. Two of my favorite books of all time, Pride & Prejudice and Les Miserables contain these elements as well. So with the story of a Regency era lady having to completely transcend her own class background to go into the service, and then ending up in the home of a spurned suitor, what is not to love? And I did love the book for about the first 80%. Margaret Macy is the pretty daughter of a loving family with a clergyman father, educated in the traditional societal institutions. At the start of the story, her father has died and her mother is remarried to a man who appeared charming at first, but is cold and controlling, needing to build his personal coffers with the inheritance that will be awarded to Margaret upon her 25th birthday. Fearing for her virtue and a forced marriage, Margaret flees from her home with little more than the clothes on her back and a few pilfered coins. After some various adventures, she ends up a housemaid in the home of the man who once asked for her hand in marriage, the younger, serious bespectacled brother of a more charming, witty and handsome man, Lewis Upchurch. But, of course, we discover that Lewis has not much to recommend him in terms of character and work ethic as does his brother Nathaniel. Part of the story is Margaret coming to realize this, and a lot of the story is how she deals with the difficult work of a housemaid. Of course in stories like this, the reader always knows the truth, that the heroine has resources and some power being a member of a privileged class, even if it is temporarily unavailable to her. So stories like this can just reinforce this base feeling that it's OK that the heroine is in debased circumstances, because we know she's really not that person, she's actually a person of merit. But the author constantly brings us back to the reality, that these other characters, the various servants of the Upchurch family, are people with feelings and lives and endure hardships that they can't escape. The religious elements help with this part of the story, especially given that the Upchurch family has made their fortune from a Barbados sugar plantation. Even as a guilty pleasure, it's hard to enjoy reading about people who have profited through slavery, and anytime you read a book about the upper class from this time in history, it's a given. So with Nathaniel, as a God fearing man, realizes that slavery is cruel and wants to put an end to his family's part in it, and Margaret (also a believer), working as a servant and realizing some of the cruelty in this system, the reader can feel that the characters have some virtue to them. The thing I didn't like about the book was the plotting at the end. A lot of different story elements come together in a climax around the same time, and at a certain point the story of the servants mostly falls away to deal with some intrigue & mystery surrounding Lewis. At that point the story telling becomes perfunctory, just trying to get the mystery revealed. The more intricate stuff falls away at that point, and things which could have been really interesting become more anticlimactic. There were some romantic elements introduced with the servants, and not particularly followed up on, which is fine to a point, they aren't all going to have a conclusion, but I felt that there could have been a little more closure to all of this especially with Margaret's relationship with the servants and with her own maid, Joan, who was dismissed from service at the time that Margaret escaped. I was hoping for at least some sort of epilogue instead of just being left with some hints that things might work out a certain way. I wanted there to be more with Margaret's revelation and more with her relationship with Nathaniel. That said, I do think the romance, although limited, was more present here than in the other two novels I read, and I found it really enjoyable. I just wish the author hadn't tried to stretch out the suspense of the romantic conclusion in the way that she had, and spent the last few pages in a different way.

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