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Lord Braybrook's Penniless Bride (Harlequin Historical, No 948)
Lord Braybrook's Penniless Bride - Harlequin Historical, No 948 Author:Elizabeth Rolls Miss Christiana Daventry will do whatever it takes to keep from being thrown out on the streets -- even accept the insufferably attractive Lord Braybrook's proposition! — Julian Trentham, Viscount Braybrook, urgently needs to hire a governess and companion, and Christy is conveniently available. Headstrong, with charmingly mismatched eyes and... more » soft tawny hair, Christy is unlike any woman he has ever encountered. But there is something so deliciously endearing about her that Julian quickly forgets how scandalous it would be to give in to the mounting attraction for his penniless governess….« less
Janice - reviewed Lord Braybrook's Penniless Bride (Harlequin Historical, No 948) on + 651 more book reviews
A very intense tale centered around the question of illegitimacy. The heroine and her brother are the illegitimate children of a duke. So they are neither fish nor fowl. They won't be accepted by the upper class and they don't really belong with middle class people either. It seems like there is no future for the heroine except that of a mistress. But having lived that life through her mother she doesn't want that. The hero's family also has illegitimacy in it. These two are strongly attracted to each other but marriage is out of the question. Events cause the hero to rethink his views. My only caveat is that some characters just vanish from the tale; I must check whether the author picked up their fate in a subsequent book.
Sexual content: There's quite a bit, but nothing that grossed me out.