The Honorable Nash Renfrew, ambassador to Russia, has
returned home to England to take possession of an
inheritance. Nash longs to return to Russia and away from
his aged aunt who wants him to get married. Nash has no
interest in marriage, but humors the old woman, and then
heads off to check his newly appropriated property.
Maddy Woodford is struggling to make ends meet as she tries
to raise her five younger half-siblings after the death of
her father. One day, while Maddy watches a
gentleman riding over a hill, she looks on in shock as he
tries to make a jump over a wall and is thrown from his
horse. Maddy rushes to his aid and decides to take the man
home. She puts him in her bed and will nurse him back to
health regardless of the threat to her reputation.
Soon the gentleman awakens under Maddy's tender care, but he
can't remember who he is. He has fleeting
memories, one being of Maddy asleep beside him in
bed; a fact she neither admits or denies. This strange, yet
appealing man doesn't seem to mind staying in her bed and
soon he's become a playmate for her sisters and brothers.
When Nash gets his memory back, but doesn't announce his
recovery. He wants to stay on and help Maddy, who is being
stalked by a devious individual who arrives late at night
and purposely scares her and the children. This fiend goes
as far as to destroy her crops and livestock so she and her
family will have to leave. And if that wasn't bad enough,
Maddy has no support, especially from those righteous
thinking members of the town who feel she's living in sin
win Nash. With no other choice at his disposal, Nash decides
on a course of action that will save Maddy and her wards, as
well as give his opinionated aunt what she wants most of all.
THE ACCIDENTAL WEDDING is a cute regency historical romance
about a disillusioned lord who becomes the knight in
shining armor for a young woman running out of hope.
Nash is very appealing and at times does come across as the
too-good-to-be true savior, mainly due to his title and the
fortune at his disposal. Maddy's motivation is somewhat
harder to understand given that she worries about her
reputation yet continues to come up with implausible reasons
for him to stay. I also thought that the subplot related to
the lurker that's causing Maddy problems lacked development
and resolution.
What I thought would be another cute and sweet romance by
Anne Gracie was less than ideal reading for me, but for
those who can put aside some of these problems and are fans
of Ms. Gracie's past work, they may want to give THE
ACCIDENTAL WEDDING a chance.
Nash Renfrew wakes up in the home of Maddy Woodford after
he's had an accident and cannot remember what happened. But
soon enough his memory returns and Nash realizes he doesn't
want to leave Maddy and the only way to stay is to pretend
to still have amnesia.
Their love affair is complicated as
he is a diplomat and Maddy is just a country girl in charge
of five orphaned half-siblings. But their love is also
igniting a danger neither of them realize and a threat to a
new-found love neither Maddy nor Nash can live without.
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