The Second Time Around
by Ella Quinn
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GENRE: Historical Romance
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BLURB:
Can a beautiful Worthington
Before he died, Patience
was the Earl of Worthington’s second wife. So why shouldn’t Patience be allowed
a second chance at marriage, too? Of course, finding a new husband was not
something the mother of four had ever planned on. But a surprise encounter with
her first love has suddenly made the impossible seem possible all over again .
. .
It seems like a lifetime
ago that Richard, Viscount Wolverton, was halfway around the world, looking for
adventure . . . while Patience, at her coming-out, was left with no choice but
to take old Worthington
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My Review:
I love historical novels and Ella Quinn in particular, her stories are original and very engaging. I really loved this story of love between two people no longer young.
Richard and Patience were in love but he felt the need to travel and know the world. When he returned she was going to marry the Earl of Worthington and her parents didn't allow him to approach her. Now she is a widow and free to fall in love again, even though she lives with her stepson because her daughters are under his protection. If she marry again will have to leave them to live with him. Who can marry a widow with four daughters if not her first love? But worth the risk of losing her daughters forever?
The protagonists are well characterized, adorable, believable, and their attraction to each other sizzled. I loved them from the first page.
It can be read as a standalone but I recommend reading the series in order to better appreciate the plot.
An engaging, delightful and brilliant Regency Romance of a second chance in love.
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EXCERPT:
Patience gasped. Not loudly, she was much too self-contained
to draw attention to herself. But Richard could feel her pulse jump, and he was
pleased that he still had the ability to shake her calm, to make her react to
him. He wondered if her old husband had been able to command her attention in
the same way. The corners of his lips twitched. Probably not. Whether she knew
it or not, she was his and always had been.
If only he hadn’t been such an idiot. Who forgets the year
of his beloved’s come out? A young man who had traveled halfway across the
world looking for adventure, that was who. By the time he had returned home, it
was just days before her marriage to Lord Worthington. He had argued with her
father to be able to see her, but it was as if her parents had locked her in
the house. When they’d traveled to Town for the wedding, he had followed.
However, his pains had been to no avail. Neither her mother nor father was going
to let him ruin their plans for Pae. After all, an earl outranked the heir to a
viscount. There was also the scandal that would ensue if she broke the
betrothal just days before the nuptials. He would not have cared, but he was
the only one. Even his parents would have been appalled if Pae jilted Worthington
Too late. That is what everyone had told him. But he wasn’t
too late now.
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She is married to her wonderful husband of
over thirty years. They have a son and two beautiful granddaughters, and a dog.
After living in the South Pacific, Central America, North
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and Europe, she and her husband decided to make their dreams come true and are
now living on a sailboat cruising the Caribbean and North
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RispondiEliminaExcellent review! Sounds like a great read!
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