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The Wedding Gamble
297 pages
A tender, slow-burn exploration of two guarded hearts navigating the intimate, complicated space of a marriage of convenience.
What it feels like
This classic Regency romance wraps the reader in an atmosphere of quiet yearning and drawing-room intimacy. The narrative unfolds at a steady, deliberate pace, focusing intensely on the internal emotional landscapes of two people bound by duty but terrified of vulnerability. The prose is elegant and gently formal, perfectly capturing the restrained manners of the era while simmering with unspoken tension. It feels like watching ice slowly melt; the initial pragmatic coldness of their arrangement gradually gives way to a deeply romantic, hard-won warmth. Readers who delight in the marriage-of-convenience trope and love watching a brooding, cynical hero slowly dismantled by an earnest, steadfast heroine will find themselves thoroughly swept away by this tender, character-driven journey.
- Mood
- intimate
- yearning
- quietly tense
- Tone
- earnest
- romantic
- wistful
- restrained
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- marriage of convenience · healing from past betrayal · duty versus desire · vulnerability of trust
- The writing
- Elegant and gently formal, capturing the restrained manners of the Regency era while delving deeply into internal emotional landscapes.
- The arc
- Two guarded souls enter a pragmatic arrangement, slowly dismantling their emotional walls to discover a profound, unexpected love.
- Who it's for
- Readers who savor slow-burn, traditional Regency romances where the real conflict lies in the characters' internal fears rather than external villains.
Content notes
- gambling
- past betrayal
- emotional withholding
About the book
Sarah Wallingford Would Do Her Duty Even if that meant putting herself on the Marriage Mart during a London season she could ill afford-and did not desire. Now ironic circumstance had wed her to the compelling Marquess of Englemere, a fabled gamester, who had awakened passions she was honor-bound not to express!A marriage of convenience could be deucedly inconvenient-even for a marquess-when one was perilously close to loving his own wife! But that was impossible, Nicholas Stanhope knew, for hadn't his tragic past proven that women-especially wives-were not to be trusted?
Description from Open Library.
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