Helpful Score: 4
In the final book of Kat Martin's bride series, Rule--youngest member of the Dewar brothers--becomes betrothed to a 16-year-old daughter of a gun-manufacturing American businessman. While the businessman is on his deathbed, he gets Rule to promise to marry his daughter in return for 1/2 of his business holdlings, but not to consumate the marriage until she's "of age." Due to Rule's loyalty to his employer, and also to fulfill a promise he made to his deceased father, Rule marries Violet and then leaves promptly for England.
It's three years later. Violet's father has been dead for awhile, but Rule has been working at the plant in England, a rake in his spare time that drinks, gambles and courts the ladies, and he has never gone back to see his bride. He thinks of her as all gangly legs and freckles. But when she shows up on his doorstep with her cousin, he sees that she's now a beautiful and very independent young woman. And when she announces that she wants the marriage annulled, Rule finds her even more attractive than ever and convinces himself that being married to her might actually be exciting.
A good book. The passion was electric, and there were several sub-plots that involve selling the business, her cousin hooking up with Rule's best friend, and Rule being charged with murder. I enjoyed it alot. Too bad this series has come to an end...
It's three years later. Violet's father has been dead for awhile, but Rule has been working at the plant in England, a rake in his spare time that drinks, gambles and courts the ladies, and he has never gone back to see his bride. He thinks of her as all gangly legs and freckles. But when she shows up on his doorstep with her cousin, he sees that she's now a beautiful and very independent young woman. And when she announces that she wants the marriage annulled, Rule finds her even more attractive than ever and convinces himself that being married to her might actually be exciting.
A good book. The passion was electric, and there were several sub-plots that involve selling the business, her cousin hooking up with Rule's best friend, and Rule being charged with murder. I enjoyed it alot. Too bad this series has come to an end...
