Her Bridegroom Bought and Paid For (Brides of Karadok Book 4)

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What she does not realize is extraordinary scheme the King has devised to find her a suitable bridegroom. However, the sheer number of secondary characters and details about them unfortunately made it, at times, seem like the purpose of this book was to establish characters and their stories for future books. He had everyone reduced to whatever qualities he could gleam from a sparse conversation and then that’s how he regarded them. For the last hour she had watched intently as the coast of southern England grew increasingly larger,. Women like his sister who were unmovable and not of a sunny, cheerful disposition were just too contrary.

All she wants to do is faithfully serve Her Majesty, something she could do in peace if it was not for the Queen’s countryman, Viscount Bardulf, who seems to delight in baiting her! Brought up to believe she will "never make old bones" she lives a quiet and lonely existence, hiding away her excessive freckles and red hair from a world that believes her to be hideously misshapen and ugly.I'd put it off because I knew from other reviews that Konrad would mess up and that some aspects of both their personalities would sometimes frustrate me and I should have just read it earlier.

Bounty hunter Bret Sterling kills Rufus Petty, thief and murderer, less than ten feet away from a frightened, half-starved woman. There was interesting information about the culture and customs at the time, the food and clothes as well as people’s everyday lives. The two figures looked down on the mellow gray stone edifice, which sat majestic and comfortable in its ancient setting of expansive green pastures. I felt that maybe that time could've instead been used to show more of Aimee and Konrad genuinely getting to know each other.

Wrongfully accused of the murder of her husband, Geneviève Amberley, the Duchess of Venbrough, buried her past before it could bury her. I desperately wanted to read a tempestuous novel but one that wouldn’t make me cringe or rage because of dubious consent, controlling behaviour, and the like. If you’d like to receive updates in your inbox, visit our subscribe page and sign up for the content you crave! I love that this book revisits old archetypes in a way that is so much more palatable than those classics from the 80s and 90s.

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