To Bed the Baron by Emma V. Leech
One desperate young woman…
Jemima Fernside is the epitome of a well-behaved lady, bred to marry a gentleman and play the part of the perfect wife. Until she finds herself alone in the world without a penny to her name. With few options available to her, Jemima has little choice but to accept a scandalous proposal to become the paid companion to a man she’s never even met.
One desperately lonely man…
Solomon ‘Solo’ Weston, the Baron Rothborn, is sick of society, and people in general who leave him irritable and impatient. As Lieutenant Colonel of the 15th King’s Dragoons, he was invalided out of the army after a bullet left him lame. Haunted by guilt, by dead comrades and a lost love, he is becoming ever more reclusive, finding escape through his beloved books.
And a passion neither of them expected to find…
When driven to seek comfort from his bleak existence, Solo believes he has little to offer but financial security in return for a lady’s virtue.
But Jemima is not the kind of woman who will leave sleeping ghosts lie, and soon the past and the future don’t look at all like Solo expected them to.
- File Name:to-bed-the-baron-by-emma-v-leech.epub
- Original Title:To Bed the Baron (Girls Who Dare Book 9)
- Creator:Emma V Leech
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B084VN5FBS
- Date:2020-04-23T16:00:00+00:00
- File Size:879.440 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Members of the Peculiar Ladies’ Book Club
- 2. Chapter 1
- 3. Chapter 2
- 4. Chapter 3
- 5. Chapter 4
- 6. Chapter 5
- 7. Chapter 6
- 8. Chapter 7
- 9. Chapter 8
- 10. Chapter 9
- 11. Chapter 10
- 12. Chapter 11
- 13. Chapter 12
- 14. Chapter 13
- 15. Chapter 14
- 16. Chapter 15
- 17. Chapter 16
- 18. Chapter 17
- 19. Chapter 18
- 20. Chapter 19
- 21. Chapter 20
- To Ride with the Knight
- 22. Want more Emma?
- 23. About Me!
- 24. Other Works by Emma V. Leech
- 25. Audio Books!
- The Rogue
- Dying for a Duke
- The Key to Erebus
- The Dark Prince
- 26. Acknowledgements
Book 9 in the Girls Who Dare series is about Jemima Fernside, a lady who had fallen on hard times and was now penniless, and Solomon "Solo" Weston, the Baron Rothborn, who had been a Lieutenant Colonel in the 15th King's Dragoons. He was injured in a battle that left him lame, which forced him to leave his military career behind. Baron Rothborn agonized over the death of his fellow soldiers as well as losing the woman he had loved, was a retiring man who shunned society and found escape through the books he loved so much. Baron Rothborn wanted someone to help him escape his empty life but thought he didn't have anything to offer a lady except financial security in exchange for her virtue. So he set out to find someone who would agree to be his companion, someone who could be discrete and not expect any sentiments such as love, marriage, or emotions in return. After the death of her beloved aunt, Jemima was in dire straits and had little recourse but to accept the Baron's offer. However, she was not the type of person to let someone wallow in self-pity, doubt, or shame. She was determined to prove to the baron that he had more to offer than he realized. To say Jemima was an innocent lady and quite nervous about becoming Solo's mistress would be putting it mildly. However, Solo did his best to put her at ease. What he had not been prepared for, though, was for many of the single men of the town to start paying calls on her as soon as her presence was made known to the local residents. Although both Solo and Jemima were a bit nervous as their relationship began, the chemistry between them was quite apparent and the hint of the passion to come titillated the reader's imagination. It slowly continued to build throughout the book. The humor the author sprinkled within the more intense moments was often a welcome relief. There were times that the drama became so thick that, without the humor, the reader might have been overwhelmed without the humor to alleviate the heaviness. The more Jemima and Solo interacted, the greater the chemistry between them grew. The continued use of bringing other characters' stories into the middle of the main story became a bit vexing. Reading multiple stories at the same time has become quite a bore and was so distracting, again at the wrong time. I found the constant back and forth of Solo's temper to be a bit overdone after it droned on for several chapters. It quickly became too much. One would think that the author might have him yielding a bit more and making at least some changes, but that didn't happen for quite some time. Jemima had to placate him too often, which made her less appealing too. She should have snapped his head off once or twice...or a dozen times for that matter since he continued to waffle with his anger so much. The drama and intrigue were both pretty high as the book continued. There were moments that would cause the reader to want to jump and shout at the characters in anger, and then there were other times that the reader would want to lay their head down and weep for either sadness or joy. Sometimes the angst outweighed the drama, to the detriment of the story. There were many aspects of the story that won't be mentioned in this review so as to not reveal too much. Suffice it to say that there is more to this story than meets the eye, and it all keeps the reader on their toes. Intrigue, angst, romance, passion, humor, this book has it all. The ending was absolutely marvelous, to say the least. Totally wicked, hot, and hilarious all at the same time. It was a perfect ending to one of the better books in the series. Book 9 definitely gets the Keeper for the Shelves award.