My guest review for Never Marry a Stranger by Gayle Callen is now up at The Book Binge
The prodigal returns . . .
It’s an absolute scandal when Captain Matthew Leland arrives at Madingley Court. Presumed dead in battle, his sudden appearance gives the ton quite the shock. But no one is more surprised than Matthew, because waiting for him at home is a bewitching, blue-eyed beauty—and she claims to be his wife!
Miss Emily Grey was alone in the world when a knight in shining armor came to her rescue, claimed her heart, and then disappeared. But now her little white lie, a desperate act of self-preservation, has come back to haunt her. Her husband, once a far-off fantasy, is now a flesh-and-blood man who insists she share his bed . . .
Matthew has no memory of any marriage to this scheming seductress, and he’s determined to expose her in every way. But a life with the exquisite Emily will prove irresistible . . . and a marriage of deception will become a marriage of sweet, sweet surrender.
So Matthew Leland has been dead for a year, or at least that what his family thought. You see he was in the Army and was sent to India. He was wounded and had a long recovery. When he was healed he changed regiments but his old regiment had thought him dead and notified his family. He was out of communication range with his new regiment but when he found out about the mix up he went right home. He’s changed since being away from his family and England and he’s not about to be the controlled, repressed man he once was. Read more——->
I almost picked this one up at the bookstore the other day… Glad I didn't. Perhaps one day, I'll find it in the ubs 🙂
Thank you Tracy. I'm not a big fan of a lie between the hero and heroine either…