St. Martin's Paperbacks
Featuring: Michael Cavensham; March Lawson
384 pages ISBN: 1250116163 EAN: 9781250116161 Kindle: B0769ZQ95V Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
March Lawson is desperate. For the past eight years, she
has had to become the head of the family and take care of
the three siblings, including her one year old brother,
with a meager budget to run their whole estate. On the
verge of starving with a list of dire repairs required
all over the estate, she resorts to embezzling from their
trustee, Marquess of McCalpin, who seems to as much of a
miser as their last guardian and has yet to respond to
her letters or hand over her inheritance, now that she is
twenty-five years old.
Michael Cavensham, the Marquess of McCalpin, feels guilty
when he finds out the conditions the Lawson family has been
surviving on and the person embezzling from him, from her
own inheritance, is none other than the captivating Ms.
March Lawson. But he has reasons and
secrets of his own for the negligence which he is now
determined to rectify. The attraction between the two is
just an added inconvenience, especially when they are
still unable to fully trust each other. In this battle of
wills, who will turn out the winner and who will end up
losing their heart?
THE LUCK OF THE BRIDE has an interesting premise and held
a lot of promise when I started it. But as I delved
further and further into the story, I found myself at
times baffled, at times touched, and at times
disappointed. Janna MacGregor has a strong story in her
hands, but I felt she had tried to incorporate too much in
too little time making it a bit overwhelming. There
seemed to be a lot going on, not giving much time for
each relationship and each character to come into their
own.
Despite all this, THE LUCK OF THE BRIDE, had me crying on
occasion and feeling for March. I immensely enjoy books
which make me emotional. It has potential. The leads,
Michael and March, are close to real people, but at times
their insecurities and situations felt dragged out making
it slightly frustrating. The siblings were pretty much
one-dimensional, I enjoyed Michael's family more. The
only part which I found a little disturbing was the
portrayal of Viscount Bennett Lawson, brother of March.
It felt that the author couldn't decide if he was a nine
year old child or an adolescent in mid-teens on the cusp
of adulthood. Or maybe it is just me who hasn't come
across an orphan boy who is the viscount before he is an
adult throughout the story. Nevertheless, THE LUCK OF THE
BRIDE has an interesting premise which you might enjoy
reading.
March Lawson is an orphan who, for the past eight years, has struggled to raise her siblings on a meager allowance. Most women March's age would be picking out ball gowns for the upcoming season. But March's focus is not on finding a husband. First, she must devote her energies to just one man: the coldhearted skinflint who refuses to release her inheritance. Michael Cavensham, the Marquess of McCalpin, is not a heartless man. When he learns that Miss Lawson has been forging his name to procure funds, he can't bring himself to have her arrested—not when the bold-faced embezzler is so enchantingly beautiful. Instead, McCalpin agrees to visit her home to assess the situation more closely. March has no choice but to accept. But how can she manage the handsome trustee who controls her purse strings—when he tugs at her heart strings as well?
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