When her home situation becomes unlivable, Lydia hopes to escape through a marriage and her qualifications for her new husband are not long. Unfortunately she’s a too-old bluestocking with nothing to tempt a man into wedding her, and desperate times call for desperate measures.The Duke of Manchester has been tricked and trapped into marriage with the quietly stunning Miss Lydia Stafford – he just … Stafford – he just doesn’t know why. She’s not a fortune hunter, she’s not a social-climber, and she’s still a virgin.
While she appeals to him on many levels, how can he trust a woman who trapped him into wedlock and won’t explain herself? Isaac tells himself he could never love a woman who trapped him, but what if she had good reasons for doing so? What if, despite her secrets, he fell in love with her?
This book is 101k words, contains a trapped alpha male with a heavy hand for discipline, a distressed and desperate young lady, and the creative use of ginger. Heat level – incendiary.
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This is such a great series,i adore it! In this part,we get to know Lydia who’s in a tough spot…. Backed into a corner by her stepfather,she sees no other solution than to force a man to marry her. Luckily she overhears Isaac,the Duke of Manchester, tell his brother he doesn’t care who he marries as long as it’s very,very soon…
Isaac is an honorable man and does the right thing after they’re found together in his bed in the morning. He marries the girl. But why would she trick him like that?
What a terrific story! Rich with intense emotions and delivering a seriously colossal case of the feels, this book is honestly jaw-dropping!
Lydia had to do what she needed in order to survive and even though I understand why, I also became frustrated with her as to why she wouldn’t tell Isaac after she knew she could trust him. This turns into a battle of the wills with some seriously sexy punishment scenes.
This story has Lydia who has a stepfather that wants to rape her whenever he gets to drinking, which is often. So she is quite desperate to find a husband so that she might get away from her stepfather. The Season was over and she was at Chesterfield’s House Party for a week and then she would have to return to her stepfather’s house in the country.
Lydia is hiding in the ferns when she hears one man talking to another man and she hears the Duke talking of how he is ready to marry anyone and that he is going to make a choice and propose tommorrow at sunset. So Lydia drugs the Duke and slips into his bed naked so that she might be compromised and thus he will be forced as an honourable man to offer to marry her.
The next morning she is found by her half sister Amy, the Duke’s sister Arabella, the Duke’s brother and their hostess. So Isaac tells everyone that they are getting married.
Later Isaac goes to Lydia’s room and spanks her while he is telling her that he will not put up with her lying to him or trying to manipulate him in the future and he also asks if she is pregnant. Then he discovers that she is wet from being spanked.
Unfortunately for Lydia, now that she is married, Lydia’s stepfather decides to use Amy to control Lydia. Amy is her half sister who she loves and since Amy is only 17 there is little as far as Lydia can think of that she can do about it until Amy is married. Not believing that she has a choice Lydia agrees to not telling Isaac, anything and to get information from him when asked.
Thus after they arrive at the Duke’s main residence in the country, Lydia refuses to tell Isaac why she felt she has to trap him into marrying her, other than to tell him that she wasn’t happy at home, even though he spanks her over his knee and tells her he won’t stop until she answers him.
A day or so later Isaac again spanks her in an attempt to get her to answer his question and Lydia will only reply “I can’t”. He finally stops after a while and tells her that he is not giving up. Then she takes his cock out and starts sucking.
Some days later when Isaac is again questioning Lydia, Isaac figures out that Lydia is protecting her sister, Amy in some way. So Isaac stopped spanking her for a day or so, until finally Lydia asks him to punisher her because she needs it. So then Isaac starts punishing Lydia every 3 or 4 days, sometimes with a crop, sometimes with a flogger, etc. Because Lydia needs the regular punishments.
Eventually they have a house party to which Lydia’s sister, Amy and her stepfather are invited. Eventually the stepfather gets Lydia alone and tells her that she has to find out the names of some investors in a investment group that Isaac is in charge of. That night Lydia makes sure that she is getting punished as she feels horrible about betraying Isaac and after her punishment, After the punishment is over there is a terrific anal sex scene that is one of the best I have ever read, just absolutely terrific.
Next day the truth comes out and there is a very fine HEA
This is a great story and I am reading it over again, because I love it that much.
Bland narrative
Great book. But the narrative leaves a lot to be desired. I will probably listen again.
This audio book was given to me for free at my request from the publisher or author or narrator and I provided this unbiased voluntary review.
Golden Angel nailed steam when she wrote this book. Lydia’s secrets are more than just the one that causes her to marry Issac. Those secrets make this an incredible novel. I will not write a spoiler here…but I will say that readers who enjoy intensity will really enjoy this book. It goes in a direction that is a bit more intense than most Victorian Era domestic discipline books tend to turn. Sky Wildmist does an outstanding job with the narration in every aspect. Read at your own risk..this is a steamy red cheek plus some read.
Golden Angel has set up the perfect scenario for this couple. Do you remember Isaac, the Duke of Manchester from the previous books in the “Bridal Discipline” series? Well, this is his story. He’s decided it’s time to take a wife but he’s really not finding one in the cabbageheads he’s met so far during the Season in London. So he decides at the last house party of the season, he’ll meet the debutantes there and make a decision, it not longer really matters since he doesn’t want to go through this another year.
Lydia Stafford is the step-daughter of an Earl. Unfortunately, her mother died leaving her and her half-sister in his care. Did I say care? He’s become a drunken lech towards her. She’s trying to protect her sister’s innocence the best she can and still save herself, but he’s not acting like any kind of father. She’s going to the last house party of the season and hopes she can find a husband there. She knows she’s a couple years older most of the debutantes having their first season and she is intelligent and opinionated, but she’ll do her best to be quiet and submissive in order to get what she needs.
If you’ve been following this series then you know there is domestic discipline involved. These two characters are literally fated for each other. The story flows, the plot is seamlessly woven throughout, the characters personalities are beautifully flawed making them so relatable, and the discipline …. Mmmm, there is nothing in this book not to love.
Lydia tricks Isaac into marriage – for a good reason. She would be his perfect bride if he could trust her – but she will not reveal why. The growth of this relationship and the discipline that brings them closer may be my favorite of the series!! Scintillating, passionate and heart-warming tale of the growth of this relationship and the discipline found within.
She’s a desperate woman. He’s an inquisitive man. When the lioness in her brings out the alpha in him is when the heatwave really explodes. Lydia had no choice. She did what she needed to protect those she loved. Isaac is her only hope, but the temptress finds herself caught in her own trap. Lydia’s Penance finds beauty in ugliness. Her fear is palpable and her pain cuts deep, but her redemption emerges in the arms of the man that tempts her like no other.
We have met Isaac as Arabella’s long suffering older brother. he wants to get married, but hasn’t found the right woman yet, but Lydia takes away his choice.Lydia takes a desperate measure to safe herself and his sister. She showed a lot of strength and spirit.
Both of them actually find that they are very well suited to each other. Inside and outside the bedroom, but the reason why Lydia did what she did, is like a dark cloud hanging between them.
I loved how we get to see the story from both sides. each has their doubts, troubles, struggles and guilt.
It was a very steamy, but also emotional book. Once you start you don’t want to stop.