Ballantine Books
Featuring: Harry Fitzroy; Lady Augusta
368 pages ISBN: 0345548124 EAN: 9780345548122 Kindle: B00EX48URO Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Harry Fitzroy only went to the country to acquire a bride,
but his intended's poorly planned jest lands him in a
sickroom before he can propose. Stuck there for months, his
two biggest concerns are whether he'll walk again -- and
whether Lady Julia Barclay will have him if he can't. It's
up to Julia's sister Augusta to nurse Harry back to health,
while hiding that Julia and their father have run back to
London.
It's not often that a historical romance takes place pretty
much in one room. Isabella Bradford did just that in A
WICKED PURSUIT. After his injury, Harry is too injured to
leave his bed. It creates an opportunity for long
conversations and deep introspection. Even as their
attraction to each other grows, neither Harry nor Augusta
can imagine a life together. When the novel begins, Augusta
is a country mouse, and Harry is a superficial rake. They
both have to learn to see themselves differently, before
they can see what their future can be.
Bradford created serious impediments to Harry and Augusta's
love story. I know how romances work, but I still wondered
how they were going to be able to get past those obstacles.
I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and the journey to
their happy ending. I also found it quiet interesting to
learn more about the treatment of injuries in the late
eighteenth century.
I recommend A WICKED PURSUIT for readers who enjoy Georgian
romances.
In Isabella Bradford’s enthralling new trilogy, three noble
brothers—London’s most scandalous rakes—are about to do the
unthinkable: settle down. Harry Fitzroy, Earl of Hargreave,
is the first to meet his match and lose his heart . . . to a
lady who’s not all what he expected.
As the eldest son of the Duke of Breconridge, Harry Fitzroy
is duty-bound to marry—and marry well. Giving up his rakish
ways for the pleasures of a bride’s bed becomes a delightful
prospect when Harry chooses beautiful Lady Julia Barclay,
the catch of the season. But a fall from his horse puts a
serious crimp in his plans. Abandoned by Julia before he can
propose, the unlucky bachelor finds himself trapped in the
country in the care of Julia’s younger sister.
Harry has never met a woman like Lady Augusta. Utterly
without artifice, Gus is clever and capable, and seems to
care not a fig for society. After a taboo kiss awakens
passion that takes them both by surprise, Harry realizes
he’d almost given his heart to the wrong sister. While
London tongues wag, he’ll use his most seductive powers of
persuasion to convince the reluctant Gus that she belongs
with him—as his equal, his love, his wife.
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