"The final widow will find love in a most unexpected place."
Reviewed by Leanne Davis
Posted April 24, 2010
Romance Historical
Elizabeth Ashburton has been posing as a widow under the
protection of the Dowager Duchess of Helston. Her friends
have finally found happiness but Elizabeth is still avoiding
the advances of General Pymm. She is convinced that her
father and her best friend's husband in the battle at
Badajoz. There is no proof and she can't convince anyone to
believe her until she meets Rowland Manning. Rowland Manning is the illegitimate brother of one of
Elizabeth's closest friends. Despite his hatred for members
of society, he has established a business which depends on
their buying from him. His stable business is deep in debt.
The army contracted for 8200 horses which are eating their
heads off in the country while the country celebrates the
defeat of Napoleon. General Pymm promises to pay for the horses if Manning will
stop protecting Elizabeth. Rowland is convinced that he has
no compassion for the suffering of others. However,
Elizabeth will work his way past his walls he has erected
around his emotions. While Manning seeks to protect his business from
foreclosure, he will also seek to protect Elizabeth from the
hands of a mad man. In bringing the widow trilogy to a close, Sophia Nash has
written a compelling and disturbing story. The character of
Elizabeth is that of a warm-hearted young woman who suffers
from the attentions of a man obsessed. The reader will feel
a great deal of sympathy for her as she struggles to do what
is best. SECRETS OF A SCANDALOUS BRIDE was very hard for me
to read. The topic
of obsession is very disturbing. I loved the first couple
of books in the trilogy but this one had too much angst for
me.
SUMMARY
Elizabeth Ashburton lives behind a charming, happy façade in
an effort to forget her former life. But when she is forced
to confront the devil from her past, her friends in the
dowager duchess’s widows club can not save her, and
Elizabeth turns to the last man on earth willing to help her… The extraordinarily powerful Rowland Manning has never
pretended to be anything but a bastard, in every way
imaginable. Through innate grit and determination, he built
an astonishing empire and he’ll do anything and everything
to save it. Yet, the one thing he secretly craves . . .
something even he cannot name, can never be purchased with
his kingdom of riches. Each has something to win. Each has something to lose. Only
love will determine if the price of redemption and sacrifice
is too high.
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