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Run for your love
192 pages
A dramatic, atmospheric vintage romance where a lonely farmhouse becomes the crucible for healing a brooding, shattered genius.
What it feels like
Reading this vintage romance feels like stepping into a delightfully dramatic time capsule, complete with a brooding, wounded hero and a fiercely devoted heroine. The brisk pace sweeps you away to a lonely, atmospheric Yorkshire farmhouse, where the mood shifts between cozy intimacy and crackling, angsty tension. The prose is earnest and emotionally heightened, perfectly suited to the melodramatic stakes of a hasty marriage threatened by a scheming ex-fiancée and the hero's own bitter despair over his ruined career. It is a story of healing and steadfast devotion, offering a deeply satisfying emotional arc. Fans of old-school category romance who love the trope of a nurturing woman melting the icy exterior of a tragic, enigmatic artist will devour every page.
- Mood
- atmospheric
- tense
- brooding
- swoony
- Tone
- earnest
- melodramatic
- romantic
- angsty
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- healing through love · marriage of convenience · overcoming bitterness · jealousy and devotion
- The writing
- Emotionally heightened and straightforward, carrying the distinct, dramatic flair of vintage category romance.
- The arc
- The protagonist moves from starstruck uncertainty to fierce, protective devotion as she fights for her marriage.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave old-school, angsty romances featuring brooding, wounded heroes and the steadfast women who heal them.
Content notes
- career-ending injury
- emotional distress
About the book
He was the man of her dreams!
Fortunately Olivia was not deterred by her first dramatic encounter with the man at the lonely Yorkshire farmhouse. She had returned to nurse him--and stayed to, marry him.
She was amazed, later, to learn that her enigmatic husband was the man she had always idolized from afar--the famous concert pianist, Macaire Connal, whose career had been ruined by an accident.
Was her love for him strong enough to help him to happiness? Or would she lose out to Macaire's ex-fiancee who was determined to break up the marriage?
Description from Open Library.
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