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 Bradfordβs enthralling new trilogy, three noble
brothersβLondonβs most scandalous rakesβare 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 whoβs not all what he expected.
As the eldest son of the Duke of Breconridge, Harry Fitzroy
is duty-bound to marryβand marry well. Giving up his rakish
ways for the pleasures of a brideβs 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 Juliaβs 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
heβd almost given his heart to the wrong sister. While
London tongues wag, heβll use his most seductive powers of
persuasion to convince the reluctant Gus that she belongs
with himβas his equal, his love, his wife.
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