Genres: Romance Historical
Posted: July 14, 2014
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.
Book Summary
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.
Ballantine Books
March 1, 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
Featuring: Harry Fitzroy; Lady Augusta
368 pages
ISBN: 0345548124
EAN: 9780345548122
Kindle: B00EX48URO
Paperback / e-Book