You will meet a dragon who will eat your heart. This is the fortune young Faith Boscombe believes she is told by a fortune teller at the Scarborough fair. But Caleb Brayden, the boy who finds her and returns her safely to her governess after Faith runs off through the fair in tears, gives her a dragon amulet as protection. He’s made up a fable about the power of the amulet, but when he happens to … he happens to return to the Scarborough fair ten years later, this time as a battle-hardened general in the king’s dragoons, he realizes their fortunes are bound to each other… and so are their hearts.
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Fortune’s Dragon is part of the Fortunes of Fate series but can be read as a standalone. It was such a charming, easy to read book. The characters were so sweet! Faith and Caleb meet at a fair when they were young. Faith was upset thinking her fortune was to have her heart eaten by a dragon. Caleb found her weeping and helped return her to her governess. Years later Caleb returns to Scarborough fair and upon meeting Faith again he realizes he loves her. Faith was already engaged and her heart was torn by having to decide which man to marry. The story was a sweet romance to read and so hard to put down. I couldn’t go to sleep until I finished it because I wanted know if they got their HEA!
Scarborough, England 1800’s This series so far has been so wonderful. Meara Platt continues with a heartwarming story that just made me sigh so many times! I adore when the characters meet as children, whether by chance or grow up as friends.
A chance meeting at the Scarborough fair, young Caleb Brayden heard a little girl crying and went to help her find her governess. Lady Faith, eight years old has been given her future by a fotune teller who says she will meet a dragon who will eat her heart. Telling her he is a dragon slayer and she will be safe, he gives her a dragon amulet and that will give her protection. I was so enchanted with how he charmed her.
But the fortunes of fate step in and ten years later he returns to the town with a troop of Dragoon’s who stay on her uncle’s property. She had worn the amulet knecklace and often thought of Sir Caleb, which seemed silly since she was an adult. Caleb has returned as the commander of the troops and recognizes Faith who has grown into a beautiful woman. She falls for him, not really realizing he is her Sir Caleb. Can these two truly find love and end up together? Will she choose him not realizing who he is?
A delightful story that made my heart smile as I turned the last page. Now to just find that fortune teller!
I am a great fan of Mrs Meara Platt, so I preorder any of her release to come.
This one is no exception.
As I have read no other books in this series, I can’t say more about it but I did read Mrs Platt earlier stories related to the hero, still it is a standalone read.
This book has all the elements I love in the author’s work but is it because of the length but I did not connected with the characters as I usually do.
Caleb and Faith are fated lovers, since their childhood they were destined to be together, a fortune’s teller predicted it.
Caleb is taken from the beginning with Faith while she is otherwise engaged elsewhere. Why she fights their attraction. And as it turns her betrothed-to-be is an arse, she decided to give Caleb a chance and wants to get to know him.
The story was sweet, lightly sensual and very romantic but I am not a great adept of insta-love. I do prefer a little fight or a shift in the protagonists. But I liked they shared their thoughts and it was cute to see their life together or apart beyond the wedding day.
A lovely and romantic tale with a touch of paranormal of fated mates.
General Caleb Brayden is relocating his dragoons to Newcastle & they camp at the coastal town of Scarborough. This takes Caleb’s memory back to Scarborough fair 10 yrs. ago when he was 14 yrs old & rescued Lady Faith, the 8 yr. old crying by herself in an empty tent. He ascertained that she had run away from her governess after a fortune teller told her “You will meet a dragon who will eat your heart”. Caleb tells her he is a dragonslayer & buys her a dragon amulet to wear around her neck & he spins a story on the power of the amulet. He returns Faith to her governess & they go their separate ways.
Caleb has never forgotten Faith & has thought of her many times in the last 10 yrs. – will he find her still living in the area – are their hearts bound together as the fortune teller told him 10 yrs ago? I was gifted this ARC & am happy to highly recommend the story & the marvelous characters that Meara Platt has created for our enjoyment!
A story of charm and enchantment set in the small town of Scarborough.
Prologue: Caleb Brayden, a 14-year-old boy finds a little girl on the fairgrounds while there with his brother and cousins who are slightly older than he. He leaves the boys and goes out of his way to soothe a weeping girl of eight who had been separated from her nanny. She ran away from the fortune teller’s tent because of her future laid out in her palm.
Young Caleb purchased a talisman for the girl, saying she should wear it all the time and she would be protected from dragons, for that is what the fortune teller predicted—she would be eaten by a dragon. Locating the nanny and taking a side trip to the fortune teller to tell her she shouldn’t scare young girls, he joins his brother and friends. The episode is quickly forgotten.
Story: Fifteen years have past. For Faith she had never forgotten the kind boy, Sir Caleb, who soothed a crying child making her feel safe by purchasing a necklace pendant of a dragon. She never took the amulet off.
Fate intervenes; General Caleb Braden is back in Scarborough. Not as a young boy, but a man highly respected. Upon arriving he sees the fair is back in town triggering the memory of a pretty little girl. His mission involved a meeting with Faith’s father, Lord Bascombe. Caleb finds his niece still in Scarborough — an angelic person in place of a little girl. Indeed, a woman on the verge of marriage to a titled lord.
Caleb is drawn to Faith’s pureness of heart and beauty, a woman who hadn’t figure into his future, but snags his heart.
He grapples with his feelings and eventually decides to try to win the lady’s hand, right from under her present suitor. Time is not on his side for he will soon be reassigned elsewhere. Last, but not least, he must convince Faith that she is destined for him while not exposing that he is the boy all those years ago whom she knew and seemed to put on a pedestal. He wants her to choose the man—not the boy.
Caleb and Faith are pure hearts who find happiness nudged along by a fortune teller’s reading. It is an easy-read, very little violence, with a charming happily-ever after which I enjoyed very much.