Everything and the Moon by Julia Quinn

Challenge: Read a book with 4 words in the title.
Rating: 4

Struck by love at first sight, Robert Kemble, a future earl, and Victoria Lyndon, the vicars daughter, enjoy their whirlwind courtship in the country and plan to get married. But both have fathers who are against their relationship, and on the eve of their planned elopement things go all wrong when Victoria's father stops her. By the time Victoria goes to find him and explain, Robert believes he has been stood up and runs off to London. Robert's father lets her believe he was only dallying with her, and her heart is broken. Seven years later they meet again by chance, and both find that the spark is still there. But both believe the other person stood them up. Now they need to learn to trust again if they are going to be happy ever after.

I almost stopped reading this a couple of chapters in. It started out a little silly, but I decided to give it a bit longer before giving up. I am very glad I did. Julia Quinn has crafted a wonderful emotional story about love lost and then found again. You really feel for both and what they both go through as a result of their meddling fathers. This book, thankfully, does not depend on the big misunderstanding to carry it through the whole book. They do figure out what happened and it becomes more about other issues in the later half of the book. Over all it was fun and enjoyable.