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    The Mad Earl's Bride: (Originally published in the print anthology THREE WEDDINGS AND A KISS)
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    The Scoundrels Series

    By Loretta Chase

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    About this series

    A ferocious conflict of wills …

    Vere Mallory, the Duke of Ainswood, has everything—he's titled, he's rich, he's devastatingly good looking—and he seems determined to throw it all away. Disreputable, reckless, and wild, the last of the Mallory hellions is racing headlong to self-destruction … until a mind numbingly beautiful blonde Amazon knocks him off his feet—literally.

    An incendiary passion …

    Lydia Grenville is dedicated to protecting London's downtrodden. Dissolute noblemen like Ainswood are part of the problem, not the solution. She would like him to get his big, gorgeous carcass out of her way so that she can carry on with her work. The problem is, Ainswood can no more resist a challenge, especially in female form, than he can resist the trouble she seems to attract.

    If they can only weather their personal firestorm …

    They might survive the real danger that threatens all they hold dear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    The Mad Earl's Bride: (Originally published in the print anthology THREE WEDDINGS AND A KISS)

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      The Mad Earl's Bride: (Originally published in the print anthology THREE WEDDINGS AND A KISS)
      The Mad Earl's Bride: (Originally published in the print anthology THREE WEDDINGS AND A KISS)

      The Mad Earl's Bride: (Originally published in the print anthology THREE WEDDINGS AND A KISS)

      Loretta Chase
      4/5 - 59 ratings
      4/5 - 59 ratings

      Originally appeared in the print anthology Three Weddings and a Kiss. Gwendolyn Adams is about to propose to an earl. On his deathbed. Gwendolyn Adams isn't shocked at being asked to save a handsome earl's dying line, even when she learns the prospective bridegroom is seriously ill and possibly insane. She's quite a good nurse, after all, and her family is famous for producing healthy male children. Those stories about his riding the moors half-naked on a pale white horse? Extremely intriguing—especially after she gets her first look at the gorgeous lunatic. The Earl of Rawnsley wants only to lose what's left of his mind in peace and privacy. But his busybody relatives have saddled him with a surprise bride and orders to sire an heir forthwith. (And they say he's mad?) But with Gwendolyn, his health is returning, and his resistance ... crumbling. Is it possible that love is the finest madness of all?

      Originally appeared in the print anthology Three Weddings and a Kiss. Gwendolyn Adams is about to propose to an earl. On his deathbed. Gwendolyn Adams isn't shocked at being asked to save a handsome earl's dying line, even when she learns the prospective bridegroom is seriously ill and possibly insane. She's quite a good nurse, after all, and her family is famous for producing healthy male children. Those stories about his riding the moors half-naked on a pale white horse? Extremely intriguing—especially after she gets her first look at the gorgeous lunatic. The Earl of Rawnsley wants only to lose what's left of his mind in peace and privacy. But his busybody relatives have saddled him with a surprise bride and orders to sire an heir forthwith. (And they say he's mad?) But with Gwendolyn, his health is returning, and his resistance ... crumbling. Is it possible that love is the finest madness of all?

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    Loretta Chase

    Loretta Chase has worked in academe, retail, and the visual arts, as well as on the streets—as a meter maid—and in video, as a scriptwriter. She might have developed an excitingly checkered career had her spouse not nagged her into writing fiction. Her bestselling historical romances, set in the Regency and Romantic eras of the early nineteenth century, have won a number of awards, including the Romance Writers of America’s RITA®. For more about her past, her books, and what she does and doesn’t do on social media, please visit her website. LorettaChase.com

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      It's taken me a long time to finally read this often recommended HR, due to the lower ratings of books 1-2. If you know my neurotic reading tendencies, only upon special exception do I ever read a series out of order. Unfortunately, I've never been motivated enough to read the first two books, but after some further investigation, as well as some deep-breathing, I skipped right over them and into this one. It turns out, much to my relief, that the second book actually occurs at some point after this third book. (As for the first book in the series, I'm not clear about it's chronological order or if it has any related characters at all.)

      With that out of the way, I kind of really loved this book. The hero was definitely a scoundrel and at times, an intentional brute. Of course, there were underlying psychological reasons for his mistrust and jaded reactions. It was still often hard to like him and it took a lot of work by the author and a resiliently strong and insightful heroine to accomplish it. There were also some fabulous secondary characters that helped shape the hero's story and this opposites attract romance. In the end, it was a fun and excitingly well-developed story with lots of great banter, villain-y machinations, and a hero and heroine that I'll have a hard time forgetting.

      I read and listened to the audio intermittently and it was a fabulous audio presentation by Kate Reading. I know that that I’ve listened to this narrator before, but I don’t remember liking her as much as I did with this one.