Told as Lady Melody prepares for a wedding, the reader will
be delighted by this tale of how love can conquer all.
Left as a child on the door of a gentlemen's club, Melody
had been adopted by its members and staff. First thought to
be the child of Aiden de Quincy, he sought and found love
with Madeleine Chandler. Next Sir Colin Lambert sought to
learn the truth of Melody's birth. He married Prudence
Filby to keep her from marrying another.
The last possibility is Lord John "Jack" Redgrave. Lord John
has returned from the war a changed man. He speaks rarely
and when he does, it is brief and to the point. He is
engaged to a beautiful woman whose younger sister, Laurel,
has always loved him. On the last night of their house
party, Laurel seeks him out just to watch him sleep. As his
nightmare becomes violent, Laurel moves to console him.
This encounter leads to a night which will change her life
forever.
Jack awakens after his first night of restful sleep in
forever to the knowledge that life is about to get better.
Little does he know that his life is about to unravel. His
betrothed has broken their engagement and plans to marry an
Earl. He leaves for the West Indies to seek a another life.
Four years later, Jack returns to find himself the father to
an enchanting five-year-old. His search for her mother,
takes him back to his lost love, who insists that the child
is not hers. Laurel sees him leaving her sister's home and
finds out the perfidy of her sister and her parents. Her
child is alive. All this time she has been in mourning for
the child she was told had died.
Laurel has spent the last five years in disgrace; reviled by
her family for refusing to name the father of her child.
She is determined to reclaim her daughter and escape the
life she has led. She seeks out Jack and demands the return
of her daughter. Dumbfounded, Jack locks her into the attic
at Brown's until he can decide what to do about the claims
Laurel is making. Each of the three gentlemen and the two
wives love Melody and would be devastated if she left their
home. As Laurel and Jack work out their differences, Laurel
and Melody are learning to know each other. Another search
is made to determine where Melody lived until she turned up
on the stoop of Brown's.
People with delightful secondary characters and a strong
hero and heroine, Ms. Bradley leads the reader on a journey
of discovery. Not only do we learn the treachery visited on
Laurel by her own family, we follow as Jack starts to
recover from his trauma and return to a semblance of the man
he once was. There are some dark moments as the truth of
what happened to Laurel are revealed.
Scoundrel in My Dreams
SOME MISTAKES ARE WORTH REPEATING...
The child is his: Jack, or rather, Lord John Redgrave,
knows it the instant he glimpses the blue-eyed girl who
was abandoned on the steps of his gentleman's club. Her
mother came to his room on dark night more than three
years ago--and spurned his proposal the very next day. But
when Jack visits Amaryllis Clarke to demand an
explanation, he receives the shock of his life. For it
wasn't proud, worldly Amaryllis with whom he spent that
soul-stirring. It was her infatuated younger sister,
Laurel.
OVER AND OVER AGAIN...
Laurel was only seventeen when she gave her innocence to
Jack--and paid a steep price. She might be overjoyed with
her reunion with little Melody, but Laurel won't surrender
to her desires again. Jack, meanwhile, has no wish to give
up the daughter he never knew he had. Nor will he part
with the sensual woman who makes him feel alive with
longing. He intends to use any means possible to convince
Laurel to stay. After all, all's fair in matters of
seduction--especially to a scoundrel in love...
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