Hopeless romantic, Lady Emmaline Fitzhugh, is tired of sitting with the wallflowers, waiting for her betrothed to come to his senses and marry her. When Emmaline reads one too many reports of his scandalous liaisons in the gossip rags, she takes matters into her own hands.
War-torn veteran, Lord Drake devotes himself to forgetting his days on the Peninsula through an endless round of … meaningless associations. He no longer wants to feel anything, but Lady Emmaline is making it hard to maintain a state of numbness. With her zest for life, she awakens his passion and desire for love.
The one woman Drake has spent the better part of his life avoiding is now the only woman he needs, but he is no longer a man worthy of his Emmaline. It is up to her to show him the healing power of love.
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There’s something about a Regency romance that makes me smile and Christi Caldwell’s books are no exception. A friend recently asked me why I read Regencies. “They’re all the same,” she said. To a certain extent she may be right, but let’s face it, most romances are fairly predictable.
Regency romances take us into a world we can imagine, but one …
It is was such a delightful read, I laughed, smiled but also cried and hurt with Drake and Emmaline.
Their story was so overwhelming, two children destined by their fathers to be the future of their families struggling to overcome what was expected from them, each differently.
Emmaline spent her whole life waiting for her betrothed to come to her, …
Great romance. As children, the families arranged a betrothal between a daughter and a son of a duke. The path to love wasn’t smooth. The medical hospital and PTSD made the characters.
Lady Emmaline is a woman in love with love who places all her hopes on a man she is betrothed to but doesn’t know. Lord Drake is a man who is trying everything to expunge the memories and nightmares of war – everything except getting to know his betrothed. Complicated romance with a good plot, interesting characters, and humor in all the best …
Lady Emmaline Rose Fitzhugh has been waiting fifteen years to wed her fiancée. When her father betrothed her at age five she didn’t realize it would be bad, she would have a husband, a hone, and her own family. She wrote him notes from that time until she was twenty.
Marques of Drake, Lord Drake, has had his life mapped out with being the only …
This story is a product of its time – an arranged marriage of two ducal families – a 5 year old girl and a 13 year old boy. But the teenager, Ashton or Drake as he is known, is resentful of every decision made for him by his father, Duke of Hawkridge. Emmaline, daughter of Duke of Mallen, at age 5, sees Drake as a prince. When Drake becomes of …
Love Can Overcome the Ravages of War
Lady Emmaline Rose Fitzhugh, the sister of Sebastian, the Duke of Malden, has been engaged to the Marquess of Drake since he was 13 and she was 5. The betrothal had been arranged by their fathers.
Drake’s abhorrence of the union led to his enlistment in the fight against Napoleon, and though he returned a …
Love this book and this author. It’s a little sad as the 2 principles cant seem to get together, so much angst and recriminations for past mistakes. The man has ppst traumatic stress from war times and refuses to recognize his goid qualities. The 2 could have a happy life together.