In the next Brethren installment, a clever spinster is matched with a traitor to the Crown.The death of her father leaves Miss Francesca Cornworthy …. alone, and with one last wish to fulfill—that she marry a safe, respectable gentleman. She sets herself on a course to honor that request. That is until she crosses paths with Mr. Lathan Holman—the very opposite type of gentleman her father … father wished her to wed.
After one mistake earned him the title of traitor, Lathan Holman has no interest in reentering society. Then he meets a quick-witted, sharp-mouthed spinster. His dark past clouds his present and future. He’d been certain he’d never laugh or smile again…but it isn’t long before, he finds himself doing both with Miss Francesca Cornworthy…and wanting more.
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The Spinster Who Saved a Scoundrel
The Brethren Series #5
Christi Caldwell
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Release date 02/11/2020
Blurb :
The death of her father leaves Miss Francesca Cornworthy …. alone, and with one last wish to fulfill—that she marry a safe, respectable gentleman. She sets herself on a course to honor that request. That is until she crosses paths with Mr. Lathan Holman—the very opposite type of gentleman her father wished her to wed.
After one mistake earned him the title of traitor, Lathan Holman has no interest in reentering society. Then he meets a quick-witted, sharp-mouthed spinster. His dark past clouds his present and future. He’d been certain he’d never laugh or smile again…but it isn’t long before, he finds himself doing both with Miss Francesca Cornworthy…and wanting more.
My review :
When estranged from civilisation, brought together by a storm, can two persons everything seems to opposite find a way to one another …
It is so good when you reach finally the level in a series when you know the protagonists even if they were only side characters, who they are and where they come from.
And finally it seems I have now gained this knowledge.
Just wow!
Sorry for ranting about Mrs Christi Caldwell’s way with words but she has such a talent in bringing to life heart shattering characters.
For the moment she has not let me down, each new story I read is one to make me smile, laugh, cry, flutter. And this new one does not fail to reach its aim, my heart.
I loved that at any moment they questioned she was a bit older than he. She’s 30 for his 27’s.
When Francesca is now left alone in the world, Latham, he, chooses to be alone.
Sure their circumstances are very different, he retired to punish himself for having trusted the wrong person and caused his own downfall, while she is now an orphaned unwed old maid.
Their first encounter was quite the meeting of the season, funny if not tragic as they find themselves cut from the world.
Francesca is not the average miss, from her physical appearance more curves than lines to her honest approach of life. She might not have met society’s standards as she never had a suitor nor a proposal, but now she is left with only her will to fulfill her father’s last demand, she wonders what is it to stretch her wings and soar when all her life she has been the dutiful daughter.
Latham has no other purpose than proving he is no rotten fruit, he needs to redeem himself, to expunge his past errors. Thus his self withdrawal to punish himself from his faults and finding a way back to the Home Office.
Then Francesca barges into his home and life and disrupt everything with her straight and honorable view of life.
She never stop to chat when he is the brooding kind. Yet, this is how she slowly breaches his defenses, not judging when he makes her see her worth, showing she must think for herself.
This 5 stars closed-door tale is one moving story about finding one’s purpose in life, and who will be the heart sustaining it.
I was granted an advance copy by the author and prior to it I preordered my own copy.
Here is my true and unbiased opinion.
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