Title: Fortune’s Bride
Author: Roberta Gellis
Publisher: Cerridwen Press
Publisher URL: http://www.jasminejade.com/
ISBN: 9781419921209
Genre: Historical Romance/Het
Rating: 4 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Goddess Minx
Duty bound Robert Moreton is in love with his life in the military and has no desire to ever marry or have a family. During one of his tours of duty, he meets Esmeralda Talbot and dances with her at a Governor’s Ball. He rescues her from a forced to marriage to the headman’s son of the village she was living in and attempts to send her to England. But he finds that there is no way to do so and that leads to the only available option to avoid ruining her reputation; marriage.
Shipwrecked off the coast of Portugal, and alone without any money or her father, Esmeralda can’t believe her eyes when she sees Robert sitting on his horse in the village where she was living. She knows that he is her only way out and lets him know she is willing to do whatever it takes to leave quickly before the headman starts complaining about money again. She has been in love with Robert from the first time she saw him and now has the opportunity to be his wife. After she found out he had been wounded during a charge against the French, she responded by almost fainting, and then pulled herself together, to see to his wounds.
Fortune’s Bride is the fourth book in the Heiress series, and I really enjoyed being on the war campaign against France with the characters, experiencing what people go through in battle. There is so much emotion between Robert and Esmeralda; they don’t figure out what they really feel for each other until very late in the story. This leads them to make wrong decisions regarding what the other really wants, and each goes along with the choice because they think it will please the other.
This is an adventure for the both of them, and while Esmeralda is always looking for a way to avoid being sent away from him, Robert spends his time trying to convince himself that he has not fallen in love with her. All of the different places they stopped had an aura of danger of being overrun by the French soldiers most of the time. The relationship developed with the secondary characters enhanced this story even more for me. There is definitely a strong bond growing between Esmeralda and her servants. So much so, that she is willing to sacrifice her needs for their survival.
Ms. Gellis tells a story during the time when Bonaparte is consumed with becoming emperor of more than one country. I hope the last book in this series will find the wars ending and peace reining.
Author: Roberta Gellis
Publisher: Cerridwen Press
Publisher URL: http://www.jasminejade.com/
ISBN: 9781419921209
Genre: Historical Romance/Het
Rating: 4 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Goddess Minx
Duty bound Robert Moreton is in love with his life in the military and has no desire to ever marry or have a family. During one of his tours of duty, he meets Esmeralda Talbot and dances with her at a Governor’s Ball. He rescues her from a forced to marriage to the headman’s son of the village she was living in and attempts to send her to England. But he finds that there is no way to do so and that leads to the only available option to avoid ruining her reputation; marriage.
Shipwrecked off the coast of Portugal, and alone without any money or her father, Esmeralda can’t believe her eyes when she sees Robert sitting on his horse in the village where she was living. She knows that he is her only way out and lets him know she is willing to do whatever it takes to leave quickly before the headman starts complaining about money again. She has been in love with Robert from the first time she saw him and now has the opportunity to be his wife. After she found out he had been wounded during a charge against the French, she responded by almost fainting, and then pulled herself together, to see to his wounds.
Fortune’s Bride is the fourth book in the Heiress series, and I really enjoyed being on the war campaign against France with the characters, experiencing what people go through in battle. There is so much emotion between Robert and Esmeralda; they don’t figure out what they really feel for each other until very late in the story. This leads them to make wrong decisions regarding what the other really wants, and each goes along with the choice because they think it will please the other.
This is an adventure for the both of them, and while Esmeralda is always looking for a way to avoid being sent away from him, Robert spends his time trying to convince himself that he has not fallen in love with her. All of the different places they stopped had an aura of danger of being overrun by the French soldiers most of the time. The relationship developed with the secondary characters enhanced this story even more for me. There is definitely a strong bond growing between Esmeralda and her servants. So much so, that she is willing to sacrifice her needs for their survival.
Ms. Gellis tells a story during the time when Bonaparte is consumed with becoming emperor of more than one country. I hope the last book in this series will find the wars ending and peace reining.
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