Article: It's slightly bittersweet finishing the `Slightly' trilogy.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Lezlie Patterson

_``Slightly Scandalous'' by Mary Balogh; Bantam Dell ($5.99 paperback)

Mary Balogh saved the best for last in her three-books-in-three-months trilogy.

The latest is the story of Freyja, the strong-willed, hard-edged sister of brothers Aidan and Rannulf featured in the previous "Slightly" books. In "Slightly Scandalous," Freyja leaves Rannulf's wedding for a trip to Bath, an effort to escape the happiness she's certain permeates her home community as folks await the birth of her former boyfriend's first child. (The boyfriend, of course, is Kit, who fell in love with and married Lauren in "A Summer to Remember," the ...

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