The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband

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"While you were sleeping... With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie... I told everyone I was your wife When Edward comes to, he's more than a little confused. The blow to his head knocked out three months of his memory, but surely he would recall getting married. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is--even if he does not recall her face--and …

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No es de las mejores de Quinn aunque está bastante entretenida. El fake marriage trope juntado con amnesia es muy original pero lo alarga hasta el hastío en pos de una narrativa aburrida y a trompicones que no acaba de tirar.
Gana puntos por un protagonista que no es un rake ni un tirano ni un vivalavirgen. Pierde puntos por no atreverse a salir del recorrido de la posada al hospital en toda la maldita novela.

Temas

  • Fiction, Romance, Historical
  • Social life and customs
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction
  • Orphans, fiction
  • Erotic stories, fiction
  • Medical care, fiction
  • Soldiers, fiction
  • American Colonies, fiction
  • England, fiction

Lugares

  • United States
  • Great Britain
  • England
  • America