SALVATION by Carla Susan Smith is the last book in the Corsets and Carriages Trilogy.

I was looking forward to the end of the trilogy to see what would happen to Rian and Catherine and whether they would come together or be torn apart by their separate pasts. Unfortunately I was a little disappointed when it came to the end because there were still secrets that Rian was keeping.

SALVATION picks up where RESOLVE leaves off with Catherine hurting from the betrayal she she believes Rian has committed with Isabel. Rian stays away letting Catherine meet with her childhood friend to hoping she will pick him. When he returns Catherine won't see him while she is staying at Pelham a neighboring estate owned by Felicity's parents. Catherine finally decides it's time to talk to Rian about what happened so she goes to Oakhaven while Rian is there alone and they end up making love and getting married and all is well until an invitation for a ball to be held in their honor by his former mistress Isabel. Isabel of course has other plans that only she, her man, and Catherine's attacker know about, that take place during the ball and the reason for it in the first place. Isabel unfortunately doesn't know how perverted the man who attacked Catherine is and thinking that once she is out of the way Rian will come back to Isabel. The plan is set and executed.

I kept waiting for the new secret that Rian was keeping from everyone to be revealed, but it wasn't, only his promise to himself to tell her everything later and keep no more secrets from her. This last part of the trilogy seemed to be a little predictable to me, but overall it is a good series.