Broken Promise is the second and final book in The Brotherhood Series. I read the first one, When Love is Enough, not too long ago. It was borderline for my tastes, but I was interested in what happened to Austin, who was a pretty prominent character in the first book.
Austin is fighting his demons from the war in Crimea. After returning home, he has witnessed such horrible things, one in particular haunts him night and day, that he takes jobs that place him in danger. As a result of the death that he witnessed, he feels an obligation to a certain family and is sent to track down the man's daughter-in-law.
Sarah is posing as the daughter-in-law and protecting the son that she believes to be in danger from the very man that sent Austin to find her. She is eventually exposed as being merely the maid that attended the deceased parents, but she is still adamant about not giving up the infant.
There were a few spots of mild language in there. Not a lot, tolerable for me to skip over. I had made it to about 85% and was hopeful about not reading any sex. Alas, about that time, the vicar's daughter presents herself to Austin for one night of joy before they have to part forever. I find it a little sad that both these books contained this element. I would have enjoyed the book just as well had it not had this scene.
Overall, I am on the fence with this series. The author may have plans to end the series with Harrison, the third member of the family, but since this book was released in October 2011, I have no idea what she plans. I could have done without the language and sex. Even though it was just one scene of that and the language wasn't awful, I went ahead and deleted them from my Kindle. I won't read them again and probably won't pick up any more by her. I was just disappointed because the stories were well thought out, but to me the other aspects took away from my enjoyment. I am going to withhold judgment, because the enjoyment of the book depends on the tolerance of the reader.
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