BOOK REVIEW- The Accidental Bride: (A Regency Romance) by Charlotte Grant **

   

Book Details

 Nearing the age of the dreaded shelf, Hannah commits herself to enduring another season on the marriage mart before she resigns to spinsterhood. When she finds out that the very scoundrel who she believes is responsible for the demise of her dearest friend, Beth, is back in London looking for another wife, she's determined to get justice and stop him from hurting any other woman. If only she can manage to get close to the evil but deviously handsome Lord Denford, she'll be able to confirm her suspicions…

But when she and Ross Denford become embroiled in a scandal, she ends up tied to the rascal herself.

Soon, she fights a disturbing attraction to her husband who may be a killer, and wonders if she placed herself in line to be his next victim or was wrong all along.

After two years of grieving his beloved Beth, quiet and studious Ross finds himself accidentally married to a beautiful stranger.
He swears not to fall for Hannah, and yet soon, he finds himself fighting a growing pull toward his breathtaking wife. 

 5 STARS 
More than one surprise & that was good!

 This book had a good start but it also had me chomping at the bit.   I was practically yelling inside, "yes but how does Hannah get compromised?"   Turns out that's a good one as well as something I wasn't expecting.   It does take a while to get to that point but it does have a good base being built in the meantime.  Hannah and her family were a fun, unconventional,  loving, tight group of people. Hannah had practically raised her sisters after her mother died.  And Hannah and her best friend Beth had been super close throughout the years.  

Ross was unlike anything that I could have imagined but what a great character.  To say that he was a morose, awkward bumbler when out in society is to put it mildly.  It had Hannah wondering if that was really how he was or if he was a really good actor.  He was better when he was back in the country but still shy about putting his foot in things.  I grew to like him and feel somewhat sorry for him as time went on but it still left questions about Beth's death.  

Ross had a male friend, Ash who also held a title, was a rake and had quite the twisted sense of humor at the same time. Another factor was that he really did care about Ross and his happiness.   I could sense that there just could be another book but this time about Ash.  It's beginning to look like someone just might have grabbed his attention, in a good way. 

There is quite a bit of emotions and some angst involved.  But in the story it wasn't depressing at all.

There are at least two twists that I never saw coming.  I like it when an author surprises me like that and they were good ones.  There is a H.E.A. followed up with a good Epilogue.

 

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