*** A Steamy Regency Romance ***“She had fallen in love with her husband and now he was going to leave her.” Lord Brookenham and Miss Isobel Stafford naturally rubbed up against each other like wild thistles and horsehair. They couldn’t share a ballroom or a parlor without snapping at each other. To Isobel, he was too handsome and too manly for his own good. It was as if he had been placed … he had been placed on this earth to frustrate her.
To Lord Brookenham, Isobel Stafford was too free and self-assured for a young miss. The antithesis of everything he knew to be correct about his world.
When she is compromised by a cad and scoundrel. No one is more surprised than Isobel when Lord Brookenham steps forward to save her honor. Sacrificing his freedom and happiness to protect her from ruin. All Isobel ever wanted was a family of her own. To find true love and happiness like her sisters. Instead she finds herself married to the Earl of Brookenham. While he agrees to give her the family she craves. He adamantly refuses to give her his heart.
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An almost spinster can’t seem to find the right man in her final season.She decides to marry for convenience instead of love. She is almost forced to marry the wrong man. A Lord, sworn never to marry, steps up in time to save her from ruin. With a lot of work and some scary parts, they make it to HEA. This is a good series to keep reading!
Sweet, but typical Victorian romance. I enjoyed reading it… an escape day. But not a book to put on list of must reads. However, sweet, fun, and entertaining
A good story but the characters did tooooooo much thinking about what could go wrong.
Loved the characters
There are lots and lots of good books. This is NOT one of them.
This is the first time reading this author and the story was good. I love the trope of the hero rescuing the heroine, so I’ll gobble up a plot like this anytime.
The story could’ve done with an editor; the writing—for the most part—was ok, but the misuse of punctuation marks was aggravating. The author has a tendency to use a period, when she should’ve used a comma. LThe the sentence seems to have ended and it was jarring to read the next sentence and realize it was continuing from the previous one she just closed with a period. It created a reading experience that wasn’t smooth or fluid and was quite jerky and discordant.
The other small quibble I had was there was no mention if the hero was faithful while the two were separated (he wasn’t faithful since meeting heroine years before, as the author tells the readers excessively that the hero was a STD-trap manwhore, sliming around with any skank willing to let him into her body. But AFTER marriage, no mention is made if he was able to exert some self-control over his overused d$ck and keep it out of other females during a period when they’re not together. This is why the story is only getting 3 stars.)
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There was OM/OW drama. heroine was “compromised” but not due to any sexual activity with losers on her part, and I didn’t like how she would respond with “tingles” when the OM would dance with her. OM also forces a kiss on her. That’s as far as it went, tho. No abuse, and cheating is ambiguous, as it’s never mentioned either way if hero was with other women after marriage. HEA with epilogue and babies.
I enjoyed it as all of the book kept my interest. H is tired of the ton system of young women & their mothers out to make a match & the men out to find brides with dowries to support their gambling or to support their properties. The h wants a family as her older sisters made love matches with time. The H & h irritate each other as they argue whenever they are together. Surprises result with time when the H continues to help the h when she most desperately needs him.
A typical regency….nothing exceptional.
A great author a great book. I love the difference between what is said and what is understood or not. Read anything she writes.
it was so good I had to get the other two in the series