Linsey Lanier
Sally Kilpatrick
Sia Huff
Romily Bernard
Darcy Crowder
Marilyn Baron
Tami Brothers
Sandra Elzie
Carol Burnside
Debbie Kaufman
Maxine Davis
Tammy Schubert
Susan Carlisle
Pam Asberry
Lindy Chaffin StartWed Him Before You Bed Him by Sabrina Jeffries
Wed Him Before You Bed Him
Pocket Books
ISBN: 978-1-4165-6082-1
Charlotte Page and David Masters are being forced into an arranged marriage. Both fight the idea until they meet. Each finds they like the other. When Charlotte sees who she believes is David kissing a maid she is crushed. His reputation as a womanizer must be true. Charlotte writes a horrible letter to David that accidently ends up published in a London newspaper. David is shunned by society. Charlotte runs away and marries a military officer to save face.
After Charlotte’s husband dies, David, knowing of her interest in starting a girl’s school, uses a factious name to see that she has the financial support to open the school. He plans to take revenge on Charlotte by letting her get her school going and then raise the rent when her lease is up, therefore forcing her to close the school that she loves. Throughout the next ten years, David regularly correspondences with Charlotte as Cousin Michael so that she won’t know that it is him.
David finds that through letters, and also discovering why Charlotte wrote the awful letter, that he still cares for her. When David’s wife dies, he makes up a story that she left some money to the school. David approaches Charlotte trying to get her to move the school when a race course is moving in next door and before what he has done is found out.
Charlotte finds that the spark between her and David is still there. David offers Charlotte a life with him. Even though she loves him, she doesn’t want to give up her school. As a titled man, David’s wife would have responsibilities that wouldn’t leave her time to run a school.
Charlotte learns of David’s underhandedness, which devastates her. David can’t explain what he has done or why because he is accused of murdering his wife. He cooks up a plot with the help of the authorities and Charlotte gets caught in the net by the true murder.
Sabrina Jeffries, one of the queens of romance puts together an interesting historical with Wed Him Before You Bed Him. David is likable all the way through despite starting out with revenge in mind. Jeffries pegs the young girl who believes one thing and acts on it, to find she’s not got the complete story. Looking for a nice comfortable historical this is the book.
Tags: book review, historical romance, Sabrina Jeffries, Susan May, Wed Him Before You Bed Him
About the author
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Susan Carlisle | http://www.SusanCarlisle.com Susan discovered larger than life romances at a young age and has a stash of keeper books under her bed to prove it. After publishing her nonfiction book Nick’s New Heart, Susan turned her talents towards fiction. Be it doctor, lawyer or international businessman, if he is a smart, sexy and sensual male he can be found in her books. Susan doubles as a wife, mother and high school substitute teacher when she isn’t dreaming of alpha males in foreign locales.
Her books are just spicy enough to be on the hot tamales plate before the hot, hot sauce is added. Nice and warm but won’t burn all the way down.
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June 5th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Thanks Susan. I really enjoyed the review. The book sounds really good.
June 5th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
This book sounds really good Susan.
I love these reviews. I learn about novels I might never have seen.
Thanks so much and have a great afternoon!
Tamara
June 5th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Sounds good. Like Tamara, I find books I never knew existed.
Thanks for sharing.
Tami
June 5th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Thanks ladies for stopping by.