This book just draged on and on for me. I did not like the whole guardian/ward situation. Damian always felt to old for her. I found neither character very interesting. There "romance" seemed boring as well. I did like reading about the rest of the Knight family but that was about it for me. I found Damien just alittle to uptight and the whole situation with his "problem" being solved in one night alittle to farfetched. I would have have like it better if it was over a longer stretch of time. Lastly I would like to point out that the book was entirely to long with nothing to hold your interest and at the end of the book I thought it could have been cut out completly. This is not one of her better books I found Lord of Fire much much better.

Lord of Ice is part of Gaelen Foley's Knight family series and the follow up to Lord of Fire. I haven't read the latter, but I enjoyed this one about as much as I have Foley's other works. She's pretty much one of those romance writers who I will always read because even when her books are bad, they're still pretty good. Such is the case with Lord of Ice. This story is about the firstborn of the Knight twins, Damien. Returning from war with vivid flashbacks and uncontrollable memories, Damien plans to exile himself to his country estate so as not to cause trouble. Trouble finds him, though, in the form of a 19-year-old girl named Miranda who is left as his ward by one of his fallen comrades. Though he finds himself instantly attracted to her, Damien is haunted by the demons of his past and vows to marry her off quickly to save her from himself.

I've only read one of the other books in the Knight series, The Duke, but like I said before I'll read anything Gaelen Foley writes. Parts of this book were excellent and parts moved pretty slowly, but overall I liked it. Foley has the bad habit, though, of adding another element to the story just when you think it's over which I find annoying--particularly so in this story. Still, I could think of worse ways to pass the afternoon than with a fallen war hero and the impertinent miss who gets him in line.

Lord Damien Knight is a soldier nearly consumed by his demons. A legendary war hero, Damien has killed enough, in war, to fill a river full of blood and the dead haunts his stark nightmares. He has resigned himself to a solitary life because he fears his nightmares and blackouts would endanger anyone close to him. Nothing soothes him but the stupor he can only find at the bottom of a whiskey bottle. It is at this point in his life when he learns that a close friend and fellow soldier, named Jason, was murdered in his home and Damien was named guardian to his niece, Miranda.

Damien almost desperately seizes on this opportunity to keep his attention diverted from his problems. He travels to Miranda's school to break the news to her, thinking that she's nothing more than a child. What he finds instead is a beautiful and vivacious nineteen year old trying to protect the younger students from a schoolmaster who is also a pedophile. Damien becomes her hero. He rescues Miranda after an attempt is made on her life, reports the schoolmaster to the authorities and oversees the transfer of the remaining students to another school. Damien, however, will not succumb to his attraction to Miranda. Because of his problems, he has decided that the best thing for him to do is to marry off Miranda to a suitable gentleman. But Miranda is not making it easy for him. She is convinced there's no reason why they shouldn't be together and is determined to fight him every step of the way.

The seemingly random attempt on Miranda's life turns out to be something else as so-called "accidents" follow her to London. After her third "accident", Damien becomes convinced that someone is out to kill Miranda. He enlists his brother's help to investigate Jason's murder and discover the identity of the person behind the attempts on Miranda's life. Their investigation leads them to the belly of London's underworld and to rival gangs who hire themselves out as assassins, but the name of the shadowy villain who is after Miranda remains elusive.

Meanwhile, finding a husband for Miranda becomes a difficult task for Damien as he finds it harder and harder to give his consent to any offers of marriage for her. He eventually comes to realize that he can't contemplate a life without her, and that the only way he can keep her safe and make her happy is by keeping her by his side, as his wife.

This was such a great read. It was beautifully written with a great plot; fast paced with lots of action. I couldn't put it down.