Outside, the snow lay thick on a dead white world, heavy flakes drifting steadily from the iron gray sky.Ī bundle of rags, huddled beneath a moth-eaten blanket, groaned, shifted with a rustle of the straw beneath the sticklike frame. The old crone stirring a pot over the fire coughed intermittently, the harsh racking the only sound. THE HOSTAGE BRIDE | THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE | THE LEAST LIKELY BRIDEĪcrid smoke billowed around the windowless room from the peat fire smoldering sullenly in the hearth.
Portia, who possesses more than a streak of independence as well as a talent for resistance, does not take kindly to being abducted-mistakenly or otherwise.ĭecatur will soon find himself facing the challenge of his life, both on the battlefield and in the bedroom, as he contends with this misfit of a girl who has the audacity to believe herself the equal of any man.ĭon't miss the other novels in Jane Feather's captivating Brides Trilogy: As the bastard niece, Portia knows she can expect little beyond a roof over her head and a place at the table.īut it truly adds insult to injury when the Granvilles' archenemy, the outlaw Rufus Decatur, hatches a scheme to abduct the marquis's daughter-only to kidnap Portia by accident. It's bad enough that seventeen-year-old Portia Worth is taken in by her uncle, the marquis of Granville, after her father dies. The first novel in the captivating Brides Trilogy, in which three unconventional young women vow they will never marry-only to be overtaken by destiny.
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