After the wedding of her brother, Lord Rawdon, Genevieve
Stafford is told the romantic legend of St. Dwynwen. The
legend says that when one prays before the statue of St.
Dwynwen with a true and earnest heart, love will come to
you. Genevieve flippantly prays to the old battered wood
sculpture located inside the tiny St. Margaret Church in
Chesley. For her efforts she receives a short, unfulfilled
engagement to the dull and pompous Lord Martin Dursbury who
throws her over at the first whiff of scandal. To help
Genevieve save face carefree flirt Sir Myles Thorwood offers
for her hand and with great reluctance Genevieve agrees.
Myles and Genevieve have been sparring partners since
childhood, exchanging witticisms at every encounter. After
a false start, Myles is determined to woo his wife, to break
through her icy exterior and show her that she is who he
wanted from the start. Will Genevieve realize who her true
love is and who St. Dwynwen meant for her all along?
THE MARRYING SEASON by Candace Camp is the third book in the
trilogy.
The first book, A Winter Scandal, has good bones, but needs
to be edited down at least fifty pages. The second book,
A Summer Seduction, is a delightful thrilling read. This
book is tied with the second book for best of this series.
One point that will forever bug me about Candace Camp's
books is that she does not do epilogues. Thankfully in this
series the characters' stories bleed into the other books so
the reader can see their happily ever after. Something all
the books in the St. Dwynwen trilogy have in common is that
the identity of the villain comes completely out of left
field. I did not suspect a single one of the antagonists.
I laughed out loud when I read the result of Genevieve's
prayer. I thought for sure I knew what would happen since
the beginning of the second book, boy was I wrong. The
twists and turns THE MARRYING SEASON takes are refreshing in
a bookcase full of predictable romances.
The third novel in the New York Times bestselling Legend
of St. Dwynwen trilogy depicts the delicious romance
between a haughty lady and the gentleman who coaxes her to
drop her guard at last.
Genevieve Stafford, the younger sister of the Earl of
Rawdon (A Summer Seduction), is an icy but beautiful
aristocrat. Determined to make the sort of marital
alliance expected of a woman of her station, she becomes
engaged to the scion of another noble family. However,
when Genevieve finds herself entangled in scandal, her
fiance breaks things off. Shamed, she has no recourse but
to retreat to the family estate…until her brother’s
friend, Sir Myles Thorwood, offers to marry Genevieve and
salvage her reputation.
Genevieve expects to have a loveless marriage of
convenience, but the handsome, charming Myles has other
things in mind. As the two of them work to discover who
engineered the scandal that could have ruined Genevieve’s
life, Myles shows Genevieve just what it means to be man
and wife. Genevieve finds it difficult to resist the
passion Myles evokes in her, but can she risk losing her
heart to a man she thinks sees their union as only a duty?
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