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The Unknown Wife Kindle Edition

by Mary Brendan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
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A rake’s foolishness may cost him his freedom—and his heart—in this Regency romance.

A single passionate night’s encounter, long ago, has come back to haunt Colonel Etienne Hauke. He has a son—by a disgraced Society beauty who demands that Etienne should make an honest woman of her!

Isabel must marry her charming seducer—for the sake of her child. Although, still resenting her years of shame, she determines it will be a marriage in name only. . . .
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    219 pages
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    Harlequin Historical
  6. Publication date
    December 15, 2011
  7. File size
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0068548K4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harlequin Historical (December 15, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1248 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 219 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

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Mary Brendan

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I enjoy writing historical novels set in the Regency era and I guess you like reading about a period renowned for its refinement, yet that had a thriving underworld just a short distance from Mayfair's elegant ballrooms. www.marybrendan.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Multi-dimensional Characters Drive this Story
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2014
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Excellent HR novel. The plot is not outlandish. The main characters are multi dimensional and not always likeable but certainly real in their responses. While a modern perspective would be that the heroine should just take the money and support offered and raise her son by herself without interference from his father that would have been completely unrealistic to the time. Her insistence that they be married even if unhappily in order to give their son credibility and acceptance may be annoying to modern sensibilities but is completely in keeping with the time of the story. The fact that the hero is not instantly devoted to his son or how he feels about him is also more authentic than having him succumb to instant devotion and adoration. Since one of my big objections to many HR novels is their reliance on 21st century sensibilities and lack of historical accuracy, this was a big plus for me. It takes awhile for both characters to come around and at no point is either one willing to be a doormat which was refreshing since many books these days involve at least one doormat. I'm not sure if the author wants us to like or dislike the heroine's father but I generally don't like him in this or the other books in this series I've read. On the other hand, his reactions while judgmental and harsh are certainly accurate to the era.
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Happylittlepeanut
4.0 out of 5 stars So Satisfying
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2012
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After reading  wedding Night Revenge  I was very curious to read Isabel's story and to see how her situation was explained and resolved and this was a very satisfying resolution to that curiosity. I enjoyed the book ever so slightly less than the first book, perhaps because it seemed more straight-forward in the telling, but I did find myself tearing up a bit at the end.
I am very happy to have discovered the first book and to be able (thanks to kindle) to quickly get the second and enjoy it as well. This one did not leave me as curious about the next Meredith sister's story, but the pleasure of reading these two books guarantees I will be getting it as soon as I finish this review.
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Penny Black
3.0 out of 5 stars Trouble with bastards
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2014
During the Regency era, British law on illegitimacy left no room for interpretation: if, at the time of a child's birth, the mother was unmarried, that child was born illegitimate. Even if the parents married one another after the fact, the father acknowledged the child and raised him, the child did not become legitimate. Being illegitimate precluded the child from inheriting titles and entailed property because - legally - he was considered fatherless.

Once you know this bit of trivia, the heroine's reason for marrying the hero - the absent father of her bastard son - seven years after her son's birth, makes very little sense. The horse has bolted, you see. I would have ignored the incongruity had this issue been mentioned in passing. After all, the story is not about the boy, but about the parents. Trouble was, it came up again and again, as the romance went up and down the roller-coaster of a plot, at times making a martyr of the heroine, when, in fact, the marriage solved most of her problems.

To acknowledge, support, and gift his natural son with unentailed property, the hero did not need to marry the mother. And, considering the circumstances in which the child was conceived, his going through with the marriage was more than she could have hoped for. But, when she got everything she had demanded of him - marriage, return to her family, place in society, wealth - was she happy? No. Turned out, she wanted his love too, but afraid to reveal her feelings, she treated him to spectacular temper tantrums. He accepted them as his due for abandoning her all those years ago and only questioned her about her behavior when she decided to leave him. As if she hadn't dragged his name through the mud enough. As honorable and besotted as he was, he took this last stunt for a desperate act of love. So, he goaded her into a frank conversation, which ended with a rousing bout of lovemaking, and they lived happily ever after.
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Maggie
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent series
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2008
This series of four books is based on the Meredith sisters, Book one was Wedding Night revenge, which was excellent, Book 2. The Unknown Wife, Book 3. A Scandalous Marriage, Book 4. The Rake and the Rebel. All were wonderful stories & all the heroes & heroines interact in all four books. They are well worth the money & will be certain keepers on any Regency fan's shelves. Once you start them you will not put them down till finished. She is an English writer & her books seem to come out in England a year before I see them offered in the U.S. perhaps she does not have a large enough fan base here in the U.S.hope my review can help change that in some small way, I base this on the fact that I have owned these books for a few years & am the first to do a review of her work. I own all her novels and every one has been excellent in story content.
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