A shy innocent…wary of all men… Part of The Wild Warriners After a shocking incident, shy Lady Isabella Beaumont is perfectly happy to stay in the background and let her sister get all the attention from handsome suitors! However, working with Dr. Joseph Warriner to help the sick and needy pushes her closer to a man than she’s ever been before. Is this man worth trusting with her deepest of … with her deepest of desires…’
The Wild Warriners miniseries
Book 1 — A Warriner to Protect Her
Book 2 — A Warriner to Rescue Her
Book 3 — A Warriner to Tempt Her
Book 4 — A Warriner to Seduce Her — coming soon
“The first of The Wild Warriners series will have readers asking for more of these four brothers”
— RT Book Reviews on A Warriner to Protect Her
“Captures readers attention as they quickly turn the pages, cheering the lovers on to their HEA”
— RT Book Reviews on A Warriner to Rescue Her
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A Warriner To Tempt Her is the third book in The Wild Warriners series and is based on Dr. Joe Warriner. Oh be still my heart, Joe is definitely in the running to being one of my favorite Warriner brothers!
Joe is the quiet, level-headed third brother and in this story he has already become a doctor and established his office. He is a good, kind man who is dedicated to his patients and his profession. He also has chosen to take a more modern approach to his practice than to continue to follow the ideas from the Dark Ages. What a fabulous hero he is!
Lady Isabella (Bella) Beaumont and her family are in the country for the summer to help Bella overcome a traumatizing incident. Circumstances bring Joe and Bella together and Bella ends up helping Joe in his practice.
Virginia Heath has a wonderful way of creating characters that you really get connected with and I couldn’t help but love these two from the very beginning. The romance between Joe and Bella grew gradually from respect to friendship to both wanting something more. It was wonderful to watch Bella gradually overcome her fears and start to trust Joe and become the woman she was before the incident. I can’t imagine a better couple more deserving and so compatible as these two! A beautiful romance and a fascinating story on the medical situation of the era kept me up till the wee hours of the night. Highly recommend this book and series!
I love the Warriner brothers! This is the third brother’s (Joe) story and it is wonderful. Joe is now a doctor and has set up his office, and home, in the town closest to his family’s estate. Due to his deceased father’s and grandfather’s actions most of the town does not like his family. The old town doctor especially hates Joe as he has more modern medical ideas after training in Edinburgh. Joe treats anyone who needs it, even if his pay is a chicken.
Recently, an Earl and his family have rented a house in the area for the summer. Joe is attracted to the daughters. Lady Clarissa is beautiful, but he is curious about the shy Lady Isabella. The family thought being out of London may help Bella over her fear and shyness with men caused by an incident in London. Bella works at the foundling home two days a week reading to the children and helping in the infirmary. Bella is very interested in medicine and reads medical books, but women can’t be doctors.
While Joe was attending a difficult birth, Bella tended a sick child at the foundling home. Joe discovered her later that night still sitting with the child, whose fever was down thanks to her. He was very impressed and later gave her a stethoscope. She was thrilled. When smallpox was found in a nearby town, Joe sent his brother Jake to buy cowpox vaccine from Dr. Jenner, the inventor of the vaccine. Of course, the older doctor thinks vaccinations are a waste of time and dangerous. Bella volunteers to receive the first vaccine and she has the best answers for the questions thrown at her. Then the older doctor did something despicable.
I won’t spoil the rest of this heart wrenching wonderful book. And there is a lot more than I’ve mentioned. Each brother’s book in this series can be read on its own. I highly recommend this series and this author.
Every Tuesday and Friday for the past twenty eight days, Dr Joe Warriner sat in his surgery, waiting to glimpse to woman of his dreams: the incandescent Lady Clarissa Beaumont. Instead that fateful day, her sister Isabella was alone. The dour, bookish and foreboding “Bella” Joe had seen hugging the walls at assemblies. But Bella had noticed the handsome doctor, were it not for the London “incident”, Bella could entertain wishes…
I have reached the conclusion that it has become impossible for me to review a book by Virginia Heath without making a complete and utter fool of myself, because I am entirely overwhelmed by Ms. Heath’s brilliance; by her boundless creativity; the sheer splendour of her incomparable prose; her deeply human characters; her sensitivity to human suffering; and her unparalleled storytelling abilities. I have raved about the two previous instalments of The Wild Warriners, and A WARRINER TO TEMPT HER might be the best of the three; it is such an outstanding series, I honestly couldn’t tell unless I read them all again. Dr Joe Warriner is a brilliant physician and a hopeless romantic fool; a consummate professional and clueless when it comes to women; and overall, a supremely delightful hero. Bella, who was once as dazzling as her sister, is a shell of her former self; she has been hurt badly, and seldom has it felt more gratifying to witness a person heal; what a beautiful character! And what a gorgeous, breathtaking romance theirs is; let me swoon!
Virginia Heath has done an inordinate amount of research into the state of medicine in Regency England, which made A WARRINER TO TEMPT HER positively enthralling on several fronts: the stubbornness of many medical professionals when faced with modernity; the appalling treatments for some maladies (I still shiver at the mention of hysteria); and the deadly consequences of the sheer stupidity of clinging to superstitions. Not to mention, of course, the injustice of banning women from studying medicine. While it is not necessary to have read the previous books in the series, readers familiar with A Warriner to Rescue Her will smile fondly at the mention of “Orange Blossom” and shout with unadulterated glee at the consequences of small-mindedness. Oh but that was ever so satisfying; I certainly did not see it coming, and it was a stroke of genius!
Might as I try, I will never be able to do justice to the splendour that is A WARRINER TO TEMPT HER, so I will conclude with this: if you love historical romance, you need to read this book, or any book by Virginia Heath, because I’m not quite sure if anyone can do it better.
A Warriner to Tempt Her is another terrific installment of Virginia Heath’s The Wild Warriners. Dr. Joe is a fantastic hero and he is just perfect for Bella. Bella is a wonderful, intelligent heroine who is just perfect for Dr.Joe. Great characters, tense back story and situations make for a lively and entertaining read. This is a must read series. Just trying to write about it here, makes me want to read it again.
I just love about Virginia Heath’s writing style is that her books are movies that play out in my head. How does she do that?
Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE historical romance. As a matter of fact, they were my introduction into the romance genre, and although my reading habits have expanded into other genres and I write PNR, historical romance will always be my first love.
This was the first book I’ve read by this author, and she had me hooked from the first few pages. I couldn’t put it down. Dr. Warriner was a gentle, intelligent hero, but with that streak of alpha male I so love. His Bella was a woman ahead of her time, and a wonderful match for him. I loved, loved, LOVED this story, and will be picking up the rest of the series!
A Warriner to Tempt Her is the first book I have read by Virginia Heath, but it definitely won’t be my last. I can’t wait to download the first two books in the series.
Lady Isabella Beaumont is a beautiful, intelligent woman who is more suited to the modern age. However, her spark has dimmed since a man tried to take her innocence. Now, she doesn’t trust men. Handsome Dr. Warriner fascinates her though.
Joe Warriner, like Bella, is a man ahead of his time. He is a doctor who actually cares about his patients, unlike Dr. Bentley, who only cares about the money his patients can give him. Joe nor his family is liked in the town because of his father’s and grandfather’s past actions. People are suspicious of him because of his modern thinking when it comes to medicine, and he will see anyone who needs treatment, whether they can pay him or not. Joe notices Bella, but only for her surly demeanor. He is more entranced by her sister, Clarissa, who is the exact opposite of Bella, at least at first.
As Bella spends time at the foundling hospital, Joe becomes increasingly mesmerized by her beauty and her intelligence. She is different than any other woman he has been in the company of. Bella begins to slowly trust Joe despite her fears. She desperately wants to reclaim the woman she once was, but her fear holds her prisoner. Maybe…just maybe…Joe is the one to set her free. I loved being a bystander and watching a mutual respect, then a friendship, and then a love develop between these two. They definitely were perfectly matched. As Joe accepted her for who she was, she accepted Joe despite his family’s past. She even supported him in his more modern way of practicing medicine!
Not only did I enjoy their romance, but I enjoyed the way medicine and history of the smallpox epidemic was incorporated into the book. Thank God for doctors like Joe Warriner. If you are looking for an intelligent, witty, entertaining historical romance, I highly recommend getting to know Dr. Joe!!!!!