Tracy’s review of To Wed A Wild Lord (Hellions of Halstead Hall #4) by Sabrina Jeffries
Drowning in guilt over his best friend’s death seven years ago, Lord Gabriel Sharpe, the Angel of Death, knows his only hope at redemption is a race against a shocking opponent.
Shrouded in darkness for the past seven years, the infamous racer Lord Gabriel Sharpe is known to accept every challenge to race thrown at him. When his next challenge comes in the form of his late best friend’s sister, Virginia Waverly, Gabe is shocked. Yet she presents just the opportunity Gabe needs–marriage to fulfill his grandmother’s ultimatum and ensure his inheritance. What he didn’t count on was needing her love.
Gabriel Sharpe knows he had to get married. His grandmother gave him and all of his siblings an ultimatum: all 5 of them must get married with the year or they lose their inheritance. Three of his siblings have acquiesced and they even found true love but Gabe knows that that’s something that will never happen to him. His best bet is to get married to someone he can do some good for – and that’s Virginia Waverly, his deceased best friend’s sister. Gabe lives with almost crippling guilt over the death of his best friend, Roger Waverly, because they were racing at the time of Roger’s death seven years prior. Had Gabe not raced Roger then he’d still be alive. Gabe cares not for himself or his life in general but he has left Roger’s sister almost penniless with basically no prospects for marriage.
Virginia believes that she hates Gabe Sharpe but once she gets to know him she realizes he’s truly not the person that his reputation, or her grandfather, make him out to be. She’s not giving in quickly though and challenges him to a race – if Gabe wins the race then he can court Virginia. But when Virginia’s grandfather finds out about it all hell breaks loose. On top of that when Virginia finds out about the inheritance ultimatum she’s fit to be tied and not about to be a part of Gabe’s scheming.
This is yet another great addition to the Halstead Hall series. Gabe is nothing like I thought him to be in previous books and that was so wonderful because I can’t say he was shining in such a great light before.
Gabe is so torn up about his friend Roger that he really cares nothing about living. He turns his nose up at death and seems to escape it on a regular basis. When he starts talking to Virginia and getting to know her a bit better he realizes that maybe there’s more to life than he thought and maybe cheating death constantly isn’t really what he wants to keep doing. I very much liked seeing Gabe grow and become “more” in this book. He seemed like he had his life in a strange place but when you got to know all the details behind his decision to live the way he did it really made sense.
Virginia was one strong woman. She really was a shining light in the lives of the people around her and she managed to become that for Gabe as well. It’s not that she was just disgustingly sweet it’s just that by being herself she brought out the best in people. I loved that she held her own when she was with Gabe and didn’t become some simpering miss. Ok, she melted in his arms but hey – he was hot! lol
We also got to know more about the mystery behind the Sharpe’s parents death and that was definitely worth reading about. Overall it was a great story definitely not to be missed.
Rating: 4.25 out of 5
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I haven’t read a book by Sabrina Jeffries in such along time but I think I’m going to pick up this series! 😀
Alex – This whole series, The Hellions of Halstead Hall, is really good.