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What a Widow Wants

What a Widow Wants, December 2018
Widows Club #3
by Jenna Jaxon

Lyrical Press
352 pages
ISBN: 1516103297
EAN: 9781516103294
Kindle: B07BVDLS9V
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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"A gripping story of love that won't be denied and hard-fought happiness!"

Fresh Fiction Review

What a Widow Wants
Jenna Jaxon

Reviewed by Miranda Owen
Posted January 3, 2019

Romance Historical

WHAT A WIDOW WANTS is the third book in Jenna Jaxon's Widows' Club series. Even though it is part of a series, WHAT A WIDOW WANTS works as a standalone novel. This series is about a group of women who are friends as well as widows. Their individual circumstances are very different, but each widow has some difficulty to overcome. These stories are told in such a way, that they detail how each widow gets to the same point in time - Charlotte's house party for widows looking for some fun with attractive bachelors. WHAT A WIDOW WANTS will appeal to readers who enjoy "second chance at love" stories.

Fanny, Lady Stephen Tarkington, and Matthew, Lord Lathbury, have a history and reunite after seven years apart. Fanny is a woman who desperately wants the freedom that widowhood provides. Her late husband was a rake who tortured her with his numerous infidelities. Her marriage cost her the one man she loved and who loved her. Now that she has a modicum of freedom, Fanny wants to test her wings and indulge in a little pleasure while she still can. Matthew has always only wanted Fanny, in whatever way he could have her. He wants to marry his true love but her previous disastrous marriage makes her understandably cautious. This hero and heroine are very realistically flawed and battle each other, and outside troublemakers, in order to attain happiness together. Jenna Jaxon tells a love story that seems epic and the main characters break their own hearts before finally figuring out what they truly want and what they're willing to do in order to keep love. Jenna Jaxon balances drama, sexual tension, and danger in WHAT A WIDOW WANTS.

WHAT A WIDOW WANTS is a gripping story of love that won't be denied and hard-fought happiness. Matthew's friend Kinellan seems like a hottie and I hope to read more about him soon. I look forward to the next scintillating installment in this Widows' Club series by Jenna Jaxon.

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SUMMARY

Widowed by the Battle of Waterloo, the ladies of Lyttlefield Park are returning to London society—with their futures in their own hands . . .

The widowed Lady Stephen Tarkington, Fanny to her friends, has finished mourning her cad of a husband and is ready to enjoy her freedom. The kind of freedom neither a gently bred miss nor a close-watched wife is permitted: dressing up as Aphrodite for a masquerade, drawing gentlemen away from the party, and hinting at late-night assignations with her dance partners. All is going pleasurably according to plan—until the Roman god Fanny kisses during a masquerade turns out to be Matthew, Lord Lathbury, whose proposal she refused years ago . . .

Lathbury is charming, passionate, inventive, everything Fanny wants in a lover—but unfortunately, he’s on the hunt for a wife. He’s more than willing to use all his wicked skills to persuade her back to the altar, but he can’t wait forever. And now Fanny’s position is more precarious than she once thought. If the tongues of the ton set to wagging, it’s possible no offer in the world will save her from ruin. But does she want to be saved?


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