His Bride for the Taking: A Regency Romcom novella

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There are some laugh out loud moments, especially when their servants decide to serve a French dinner. Even if you found him, reduced him to pleading at gunpoint, and brought him back to this chapel within the next quarter-hour, I would refuse. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. I’ve worked many jobs from extra on the TV show, Hercules, to service station attendant (real women do pump gas) and sales rep while putting myself through university studying for a degree in Management (looking back I’ve never quite figured out why I chose management, although I did have a hankering to wear a suit to work). One of those reasons was that she had been in mourning for her younger brother, Henry, who had died in battle.

But a spur-of-the-moment declaration stating they will be wed could result in them both finding lasting happiness or doom them depending on how each reacts.The fact that it doesn't feel like instalove because they've both been secretly in love with the other one for YEARS. With her bestselling “Spindle Cove”, “Castles Ever After”, and “Girl Meets Duke” series, she has had great fun creating heroines who defy the conventions of their time—engaging in “unladylike” pursuits that range from paleontology to beer-making—and dreaming up the strong-willed, sexy heroes who find their hearts ensnared by them.

I liked that both Sebastian and Mary had a history together and that they genuinely cared about each other so it made everything we find out, everything going on make sense.At least, if I mark the really lousy pseudo-Regency Kindle freebies I read, I should mark the semi-decent ones too, right? I always enjoy seeing how an author portrays this time in history and if English society plays a part when decisions must be made.

And when you add in the servants trying their hardest to impress through French cuisine and then announcing that dinner consists of soup and pain, poison, cocky vein with pumpery, and chocolate mouse and I was positively HOWLING with laughter. When the secrets were finally revealed by all involved, it took a while to sort through the issues before the HEA was achieved. Suffice it to say, aside from the casual contact necessitated by social convention, he’d never touched her—with one exception. A librarian by training and a booklover at heart, Tessa makes her home in Southern California, where she lives with her husband, their two children, and a trio of cosmic kitties.A riveting good read that might be short, but never feels it, as it packs in the yearning desire and amusement to overflowing! Note that steam level is not a rating so much as a how hot was it: 0/5 - clean; 1/5 - mild; 2/5 - sensual but nothing descriptive; 3/5 - now we're getting somewhere; 4/5 - yes please!