While you were sleeping…
With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, … not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He’s unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier’s life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie…
I told everyone I was your wife
When Edward comes to, he’s more than a little confused. The blow to his head knocked out three months of his memory, but surely he would recall getting married. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is—even if he does not recall her face—and with everyone calling her his wife, he decides it must be true, even though he’d always assumed he’d marry his neighbor back in England.
If only it were true…
Cecilia risks her entire future by giving herself—completely—to the man she loves. But when the truth comes out, Edward may have a few surprises of his own for the new Mrs. Rokesby.
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I love these kind of stories! always guaranteed to be a happy ending.
You just can’t go wrong with this author !
I love stories by Julia Quinn. In this book – she has to pretend to be married to a childhood friend in order to be allowed into the hospital to take care of him. He is so badly wounded that he has no clue about what is going on and doesn’t remember marrying her. Twists and turns in this story and you are t sure it’s going to come out right.
What fun! A book with a plot, believable dialogue, and moves along with some sadness and a good dose of humor. Another entertaining read from this author!
Lovely story. Been a fan of this author for decades!
Cute, easy read but had more potential than realized.
Easy reading with strong characters
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book!
While You Were Sleeping is one of my favorite movies, so I found the premise of this book intriguing enough to pick it up from my library. Of course, the book quickly deviates quite a bit from the movie: there’s no adorably loving family surrounding either of the principals in Revolutionary War New York Town for one, and the brother is Cecelia’s, not Edward’s, for another. Still, the characters are charming and, like in the previous book in this series, they talk–a lot! They don’t do all that much for most of the story, and that’s my main reason for giving what probably would be a 3.5 rating. Plus, there’s a great deal made of a ball gown that’s inexplicably not mentioned later, and the consequences of the ball go unremarked upon by certain seemingly important secondary characters. The ending’s a good one, although I did wonder about Edward’s truck and Thomas’s letters.
I absolutely adorable Julia Quinn’s books! Especially the Rokesby & Bridgerton families! This is book 3 in the Bridgerton Prequel series.
Cecelia travels to the Americas to find and care for her brother. When she arrives she is given no information, but finds her brother’s best friend Edward Rokesby. In order to help Edward she accidentally announces she is his wife and as a small lie does it spins out of control. When Edward wakes up, he recognizes Cecelia, but has no memory for the last three months.
Once secrets are revealed can these two withstand the fall out?
love this author
I love this writer and the characters never fail to delight.
Loved it
This was a very good book. Watching how she got stuck in a lie and how she tried to maneuver not to get busted was entertaining. Ending was very sweet.
I loved the story. It pulls you in right from the beginning and keeps you hoping for the happy ending, not for just one of the characters but for both.
Easy read, characters are well filled out. Plot is a bit unbelievable, but still an entertaining read.
Julia Quinn is a masterful writer. Never fails to entertain!
One thing I love about Julia Quinn is the humor she manages to put into her books. There aren’t many authors that make me laugh out loud.
Desperate times call for desperate measures! And how do you undo the messy knot of it all at when the desperate measures are no longer needed? Julia Quinn has the enjoyable solution. Sad that Thomas died … or did he?