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To Woo a Wicked Widow

To Woo a Wicked Widow, April 2018
The Widow's Club #1
by Jenna Jaxon

Lyrical Press
Featuring: Lady Charlotte Cavendish; Nash, the twelfth Earl of Wrotham
352 pages
ISBN: 1516103254
EAN: 9781516103256
Kindle: B073NMTFCJ
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"Drawing room banter, charming bounders, and torrid trysts make this book a delight!"

Fresh Fiction Review

To Woo a Wicked Widow
Jenna Jaxon

Reviewed by Miranda Owen
Posted April 19, 2018

Romance Historical

TO WOO A WICKED WIDOW is the first book in Jenna Jaxon's Widow's Club series. This book starts out with a tragic tale of two lovers cruelly torn apart by a tyrannical and vindictive father and evolves into an enjoyable farce with an intriguing romance. The first chapter of TO WOO A WICKED WIDOW, is set six years before the rest of the main story. In that opening chapter, the reader learns how Lady Charlotte Cavendish was wrenched away from the man she loved and how her father gifted her in marriage to one of his old cronies. That event shaped Charlotte's view of marriage and men. In TO WOO A WICKED WIDOW, Charlotte and her fellow widowed friends flout society's conventions and try to pick the men they want, for what they want, for however long they want. Drawing room banter, charming bounders, and torrid trysts litter TO WOO A WICKED WIDOW and make this book a fun romp for historical romance fans. Having been denied passion for so many years, after her odious husband's death, Charlotte is starved for some thrills and physical intimacy. Men, and society in general, have an annoying tendency of trying to make her define her relationships and keeping her from what she wants most. Enter two men into Charlotte's life -- the delectable and frustratingly honorable Nash, the twelfth Earl of Wrotham, and the comically lascivious and extremely persistent Mr. Alan Garrett. Lust and practicality battle for supremacy in Charlotte's mind. Love makes a surprise appearance and threatens to upset the entire apple cart. Nash is a charming suitor, and his attempts to persuade Charlotte that marriage to him wouldn't be so bad are both amusing and erotic. I also love the entertaining way Charlotte and her friends herd eligible bachelors with unexpected results. TO WOO A WICKED WIDOW is a farcical and fantastic love story. The female friendships are the glue that holds this story together, and I can't wait to see what's in store for Charlotte's friend Elizabeth. I look forward to reading the next Widow's Club book.

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SUMMARY

The war years are behind them. The future is before them. And one by one, the widows of Lyttlefield Park are getting restless . . . Lady Charlotte Cavendish is still the spirited girl who tried to elope in the name of love. That dream was thwarted by her father who trapped her into a loveless, passionless marriage. But now widowed, Charlotte is free to reenter the giddy world of the ton—and pursue her desires. For hardly your typical widow, she remains innocent to the pleasures of the flesh. Yet her life is finally her own, and she intends to keep it that way . . . Nash, the twelfth Earl of Wrotham, is beguiled by Charlotte at first sight—and the feeling is mutual. When he receives her intriguing invitation to a house party, the marriage-minded lord plans to further their acquaintance. But even he cannot sway her aversion to matrimony, and only with great restraint does he resist her most tempting offer. For unbeknownst to Charlotte, the misadventures of the past are revisiting them both, and bedding her could cost him everything—or give him everything he ever wanted . . .


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