The Broken Heart by Mary Lancaster
Danger, loyalty and loving the enemy…
Shunned by society and even by her own family after the treachery of her late husband, Isabelle de Renarde has long given up any thought of love or remarriage. But desperate loneliness drives her to make an assignation at the Hart Inn – which is where, inevitably, everything changes.
For the Hart is in turmoil once more, captured by a small group of French raiders led by the wildly reckless Captain Armand le Noir – who always succeeds in the end. Dazzled by Isabelle’s beauty, Armand regards her at first much like the task in hand – a distraction from his own pain. But the Hart seems to work its magic and inconvenient attraction gets in the way of both unwise assignation and the search for lost prisoners of war.
With the raiders only partially foiled, the adventure sweeps from the inn to a neighborhood ball and then to France itself.
Amidst the constant danger and the intensity of their growing love, Isabelle and Armand live on the edge of betraying each other or their own loyalties.
But someone is manipulating them, the true enemy is unclear, and in the end they must both risk everything to be together.
- File Name:the-broken-heart-by-mary-lancaster.epub
- Original Title:The Broken Heart (The Unmarriageable Series Book 4)
- Creator:Mary Lancaster
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B083KNV7WP
- Publisher:Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
- Date:2020-01-20T16:00:00+00:00
- Subject:Fiction,romance,Medieval
- File Size:267.099 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Copyright Page
- 3. Publisher’s Note
- 4. Additional Dragonblade books by Author Mary Lancaster
- 5. Table of Contents
- 6. Chapter One
- 7. Chapter Two
- 8. Chapter Three
- 9. Chapter Four
- 10. Chapter Five
- 11. Chapter Six
- 12. Chapter Seven
- 13. Chapter Eight
- 14. Chapter Nine
- 15. Chapter Ten
- 16. Chapter Eleven
- 17. Chapter Twelve
- 18. Chapter Thirteen
- 19. Chapter Fourteen
- 20. Chapter Fifteen
- 21. Chapter Sixteen
- 22. Chapter Seventeen
- 23. Chapter Eighteen
- 24. Chapter Nineteen
- 25. Chapter Twenty
- 26. Epilogue
- 27. About Mary Lancaster
The Broken Heart, Book 4 of the Unmarriageable series, was about Isabelle de Renarde, a distant cousin to Mrs. Longstone, the mother-in-law to the late Lord Verne, and Captain Armand le Noir the leader of a small group of French raiders who were the searching for lost prisoners of war. The former lover of the current Lord Verne, and the widow of the traitorous late Mr. Pierre de Renarde, Isabelle was on her way to the Hart Inn for a tryst with Sir Maurice Ashton, a potential new lover. Though she chose not to follow through with the tryst, there was an uproar that still threw her into the company of Sir Ashton. Captain le Noir and some of his search party showed up, a fight ensued, and all of the English citizens, including the owners of Hart Inn, became the captives of le Noir while he continued searching for his people. When all was said and done, le Noir and some of his men managed to escape using Isabelle and Mr. Villan, the innkeeper, as hostages, although they were released once they were safely away from the British soldiers who arrived to capture them. What bothered me the most, I suppose, was that I didn't like Isabelle's character when she appeared in Book 2 of the series. She was an utterly detestable woman in that story, constantly trying to separate Lord Verne and Cecily so she could continue her affair with him...even though she was already married. I didn't think she deserved her own story. But then, in this book, Isabelle was determined to pay a visit to her former lover, Lord Verne, and his new wife. She wasn't certain if her feelings for him were over or not. Why would the author do this? Isabelle should have left Patrick and Cecily alone. She should not have tried to develop a friendship with them. That is an awkward situation, to be friends with an ex and his/her new love. This book made no sense. It should not have been included in the series. Armand, although a very likable and well-developed character, was never part of any of the other books and Isabelle did not deserve to be the Heroine of her own story. It was totally misplaced and the author misjudged in writing it. If the author had to write a story about Armand, she should have given him a different Heroine to fall in love with, for he deserved better than Isabelle. Definitely not a five-star worthy book as I didn't see why it was even part of the series. Its only connection, other than the witch (I'm being nice here) Isabelle, was the Hart Inn. The rest just didn't fit. I hope Isabelle is not in the next book.