The Vulgar Heart by Mary Lancaster
When convention clashes with love…
Eager to outshine her older sisters, Henrietta Maybury is disappointed to discover the first man to make her heart race is the scion of a banking family, and therefore quite ineligible as a husband to a viscount’s daughter.
But as it turns out, Captain Sydney Cromarty is even less marriageable than she first imagined. For beneath his respectable facade, he’s a notorious smuggler – as Henrietta discovers during a reckless evening at the Hart Inn. And the more she learns, the more he fascinates her.
As Henrietta begins to doubt her values, Cromarty is forced to reassess his own. No one is more amused than he to discover he is now the Earl of Silford’s heir, a position he has no intention of embracing, but it becomes a situation that makes him dangerous enemies who are not above using his growing feelings for the charming Henrietta to destroy him.
Will he accept his patrimony as a means to win Henrietta, or will they both succumb to the threats that surround them?
- File Name:the-vulgar-heart-by-mary-lancaster.epub
- Original Title:The Vulgar Heart (The Unmarriageable Series Book 3)
- Creator:Mary Lancaster
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B07PGRSGZP
- Publisher:Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
- Date:2019-03-13T16:00:00+00:00
- Subject:Fiction,Medieval,Romance
- File Size:260.462 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Copyright Page
- 3. Books from Dragonblade Publishing
- 4. Table of Contents
- 5. Chapter One
- 6. Chapter Two
- 7. Chapter Three
- 8. Chapter Four
- 9. Chapter Five
- 10. Chapter Six
- 11. Chapter Seven
- 12. Chapter Eight
- 13. Chapter Nine
- 14. Chapter Ten
- 15. Chapter Eleven
- 16. Chapter Twelve
- 17. Chapter Thirteen
- 18. Chapter Fourteen
- 19. Chapter Fifteen
- 20. Chapter Sixteen
- 21. Chapter Seventeen
- 22. Chapter Eighteen
- 23. Chapter Nineteen
- 24. Chapter Twenty
- 25. Excerpt from The Wicked Baron
The Vulgar Heart, Book 3 of the Unmarriageable series, was about Miss Henrietta Maybury, third daughter of Viscount Overton, and Captain Sydney Cromarty, grandson of a successful and well-known banker and the unexpected heir to his grandfather, the Earl of Silford. Henrie and Sydney, whom most people of the Ton would call "a vulgar cit", met at the theater in Covent Garden when she was chasing a stray puppy and nearly fell down a flight of stairs, but Sydney saved her from the fall. Having seen him earlier in a box across the way from her, she was a bit intrigued by him, until another gentleman informed her he was just "some banker’s son. An encroaching cit.” Snobbishly, she was disappointed because "she did not wish to have been saved and helped by a cit. It lacked distinction." Eager to make a better marriage than either of her two older sisters, Henrie had been prepared to do "the duty of a lady of birth" and endure marriage...but realized that was not what she wanted any longer as she suddenly realized that some marriages could be distasteful and unfulfilling. The way the book meandered back and forth between Sydney's life and Henrie's goings-on was a bit of a distraction, especially as there was a tremendous amount of fluff that really could have been left out of the story as it was irrelevant information. With the story told from so many different POVs, it got a bit confusing and frustrating at the same time. There were too many potential villains/villainesses for a normal story, whether one that was romantic or intrigue, and it made the reading all the more of a drudgery, thus detracting from the enjoyment. So much so that, by Chapter 9, this reader was ready to rush to the end just to finish the blasted story. Intrigue, drama, angst, and a touch of humor ruled the book. The two main characters were quite well fleshed out and fully developed, but the others left much to be desired. The storyline and plot were a tad tedious and prolonged, the fluff a bit over the top. Long, drawn-out stories tend to become boring and less likely to hold the reader's attention...as this one proceeded to do. There were too many side stories taking place in this book. It could easily have been separated into three or four different stories if the author had seen fit to make it so. Around Chapter 9...again...this particular reader started counting how many chapters remained till the end. Most readers (including me) prefer books that capture and refuse to release their attention...and this one in no way succeeded in doing that. My nerves jumped and itched for it to end...actually, my mind BEGGEd for it to end but, sadly it just droned on and on and... All in all, it was a decent book and, with all the humor in the last two or three chapters, made up for all the suffering balderdash of fluff encapsulated in the previous exhausting chapters. While the ending was better than expected (and full of so many twists and turns that were totally unexpected), it wasn't enough of a save to earn the book a five-star rating or allow it to be added to the Keeper for the Shelves collection. But it was a very good ending.