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The Brides Trilogy
768 pages
A dramatic historical romance experience that weaves upper-class marriage scandals together with eerie supernatural mysteries and passionate secrets.
What it feels like
Reading this trilogy feels like stepping into a sweeping, dramatic world where upper-class historical romance collides with eerie supernatural mysteries. The narrative moves at a brisk, engaging pace, whisking the reader from the haunted bedchambers of Great Britain to the mysterious sugar plantations of Jamaica. It is a deeply atmospheric experience, balancing the playful, passionate tension between fun-loving rakes and spirited young women with the darker, suspenseful undertones of ghostly apparitions and terrifying secrets. The prose leans into the theatricality of the genre, delivering a mood that is both romantic and slightly eerie. It will delight readers who crave historical love stories layered with mistaken identities, seductive power struggles, and a touch of the paranormal.
- Mood
- atmospheric
- passionate
- eerie
- sweeping
- Tone
- dramatic
- playful
- mysterious
- romantic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- unwanted marriages · supernatural mysteries · hidden secrets · seduction and innocence · upper-class scandals
- The writing
- The narrative is dramatic and engaging, leaning into the theatricality of historical romance and supernatural suspense.
- The arc
- The journey moves from the frustration of mismatched expectations and eerie mysteries to the passionate unearthing of hidden truths.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love sweeping historical romances filled with rakish heroes, spirited young women, and a dash of ghostly intrigue.
Content notes
- ghosts and supernatural elements
- sexual themes
About the book
The Sherbrooke Bride
Douglas Sherbrooke, Earl of Northcliffe, is a man besieged. He must have an heir. Thus, he must first provide himself with the requisite bride. Alexandra Chambers, youngest daughter of the Duke of Beresford, has loved Douglas Sherbrooke since she was fifteen. Unfortunately, it is her sister, the incomparable Melissande, he wishes to wed.
But life never ladles out what one expects, and Douglas finds himself wed to the wrong sister. If having an unwanted wife isn't enough, he is also plagued by The Virgin Bride, a ghost that is reputedly seen in the countess's bedchamber. Does the willowy phantom really appear to Douglas? Does she speak to him?
Ryder Sherbrooke is a fun-loving rake with a secret. When he travels to Jamaica to solve the mystery of the supernatural goings-on at Sherbrooke sugar plantation, he finds another mystery as well - a sophisticated nineteen-year-old girl, Sophia Stanton-Greville, who wants to bed him. And not, he believes, because she is simply enthralled with his handsome self or his boundless charm.
Sophia has successfully controlled every man in her orbit until Ryder Sherbrooke, a man she knows immediately is different from the others, a man she sees as one of hell's own sons. Ryder, confident as only a successful rake can be when it comes to knowing women, sets out to teach her who is in charge. It's said she already has three lovers. Is she indeed the outrageous tease she appears? A seductress? Or is she an innocent with an ugly and terrifying secret?
Welcome to the exciting conclusion of the English Regency Bride Trilogy, The Heiress Bride.
You met Sinjun Sherbrooke in the The Sherbrooke Bride and in The Hellion Bride, a delightful, quite endearing fifteen-year-old who, I hope, charmed your socks off.
Now she's nineteen, blessed with Sherbrooke blue eyes, wit to burn, and a wonderful sense of humor. She is also bored with the London Season until she spies Colin Kinross, the Scottish earl of Ashburnham, across the dance floor at a London ball. When she overhears Colin complain that he must find a wealthy bride quickly in order to survive, Sinjun promptly introduces herself as the toothsome heiress she is.
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