Lord James and His Bride by Fiona Miers
She expected a marriage proposal…but he proposed she be his mistress instead.
Miss Abigail Roth must marry to save her family from financial ruin. Scorned by society after a failed engagement, her dreams of finding love have long since faded. Until the handsome Lord Melton sweeps her off her feet. She’s expecting a proposal of marriage. Instead, he proposes she become his mistress. Embarrassed and ashamed, Abigail is determined to forget the man who broke her heart. But he has other plans…
Lord James Melton is home from the war after six long years. Believing he is too damaged to be of any use to anyone, he travels to Weymouth to spend the summer at his family’s estate. There, an accidental meeting throws him in the path of the lovely Abigail, whose stunning smile and sparkling wit hold him captive. But James doesn’t believe he’s capable of love, and while his nightmares still cause him to cry out in the middle of the night, he won’t even try. So, he’ll hold onto Abigail the only way he knows how. As his mistress.
When she brutally rebuffs his offer, James realises he’s done the unthinkable. He’s found love… and lost it. Can this repentant gentleman rise above the pain in his past, and win back the heart of the woman he loves?
- File Name:lord-james-and-his-bride-by-fiona-miers.epub
- Original Title:Lord James and his bride (The Duke's Brothers Book 1)
- Creator:Fiona Miers
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B08G4FP18T
- Publisher:Fiona Miers
- Date:2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject:regency romance
- File Size:228.616 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Copyright Page
- 3. Chapter One
- 4. Chapter Two
- 5. Chapter Three
- 6. Chapter Four
- 7. Chapter Five
- 8. Chapter Six
- 9. Chapter Seven
- 10. Chapter Eight
- 11. Chapter Nine
- 12. Chapter Ten
- 13. Chapter Twelve
- 14. Chapter Thirteen
- 15. Chapter Fourteen
- 16. Chapter Fifteen
- 17. Chapter Sixteen
- 18. Chapter Seventeen
- 19. Chapter Eighteen
- 20. Chapter Nineteen
- 21. Chapter Twenty
- 22. Chapter Twenty-one
Lord James and His Bride, Book 1 in The Duke's Brothers series (perhaps the series should have been titled "The Duke and His Brothers" since Book 4 was about the Duke himself), was about Lord James Melton, the first of three brothers (and heir apparent until the Duke produced a son) to His Grace Charles Melton, the Duke of Waign, and Miss Abigail Roth, who was the middle (and only one still not married) daughter of five, and niece to the Earl of Somerset. (Side note: this book had a good (or bad?) amount of grammatical errors that the reader had to weigh through in order to understand what the author was trying to say...so much redundancy...sadly.) James, who had been gone to war for the past 8 years (the blurb said 6 years but the book said 8, and then James also said 6 years, so no telling which was correct), returns to the family estate to spend the summer with his family. James, who had been a sergeant in the army, suffered from nightmares, the horrifying images of his fallen comrades, and other maladies common for most soldiers and, therefore, believed himself to be too damaged and too broken to ever have a wife or family of his own. Abigail, the only daughter left at home, traveled from Bath to Weymouth with her mother to aid her during her illness. London society had turned their back on Abigail, who had been jilted by an earl who had been her fiance due to the lack of her family's finances and all of the terrible things he had been happy to spread around about her and, therefore, was considered unworthy. An unfortunate, yet mild, event at the beach brought about James and Abigail's first meeting. Even from that very first moment, the chemistry between the two sparked into existence. The attraction was mutual, immediate, and intense. The more time they spent together, the greater the passion grew. Upon the Duke's suggestion, James had Abigail's lineage investigated. When he received the report, he learned of her failed engagement and the rumors that had swirled around her. Rather than asking Abigail outright about the things he had read in the report, James determined to await further reports. Abigail, while attracted to James, was also very wary of allowing things to progress between them because of the hurt she had endured at the hand of her former fiance. However, her mother was determined to meddle and play matchmaker between the two, much to Abigail's dismay. James, still thinking he could never be whole enough to have a family, was determined to make Abigail his summer fling. When he offered her the proposition, it nearly broke her. James told her that, since neither one of them was looking for anything on a permanent level, he wanted her for his summer "companion" (read that as mistress), but then Abigail ran from him after telling him a few home truths. There was plenty of angst, drama, humor, heartache, pain, and joy throughout this story, and not just with the main characters. Some of the supporting characters had his or her share in the emotions filling this book. While it did have grammatical errors peppering its pages, this story was good. It met all the requirements a true romance reader would expect. This book has found a place with the Keeper for the Shelves collection.