Enticing Her Unexpected Bridegroom by Catherine Hemmerling Published by Entangled: Scandalous on January 25th 2016
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Their unexpected marriage will either end in rapture... or ruin.
London, 1814Sarah Jardin has been quite dreadfully in love with David Rochester her whole life. As the youngest of five daughters, her family and society neglect her. She’s outspoken, brash, and terribly ungraceful. In short, not at all a lady...until she’s taken under the benevolent wing of Lady Lancaster and invited to join the Young Ladies Garden Society.
But Sarah’s new life—filled with the mysteries and intrigues of high society—is interrupted by an unexpected scandal. Her scandal. In a moment of kindness, David comforts her...and they are discovered and forced to marry. Even as the newlyweds must come to terms with their new arrangement, they find themselves drawn into the investigation of a dangerous conspiracy.
With life and love on the line, their unexpected marriage will either end in rapture...or ruin.
I received Enticing Her Unexpected Bridegroom for free. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Enticing Her Unexpected Bridegroom is the fourth book in Catherine Hemmerling’s Lady Lancaster’s Garden Society Series. I CAN NOT believe I haven’t been reading this series until now. I instantly fell in love with Hemmerling’s society gals and the way they build each other into strong, young women.
One such lady is Sarah Jardin. She is the fifth child so she is almost lost in the shuffle of her family. Until she happens to meet the beautiful and exuberant, Hannah Rochester, she has no friends to call her own. Once brought under Hannah’s good graces, Sarah meets Hannah’s older brother, David, and falls head over heels into a school girl crush. Sarah possesses no filter and believes herself to be awkward and uncoordinated. These traits don’t scare the Rochester siblings away, it only brings them closer.
Several years later, Sarah finds herself established in the Garden Society where the ladies solve mysteries. When found in a compromising position, Sarah and David are forced to marry and David ends up embroiled in the latest mystery the ladies have found.
I can say with all certainty, I fell in love with this novel in the first chapter. The characters are well developed and easy to form a lasting bond with. Though Sarah and David had no idea how their marriage would turn out, their passions explode while their minds figure out the most recent intrigue.
Enticing Her Unexpected Bridegroom is a regency romp with the added bonus of a suspense thriller. I can’t wait to read the other three books in the series as soon as possible.
About Catherine Hemmerling
Catherine Hemmerling has been a technical writer in the software industry for nearly twenty years and has published many user manuals and technical documentation in that time. She has always had a love of writing fiction but has never pursued publication in that genre until recently.
Hopefully it is the beginning of a long new journey with Lady Lancaster and the Garden Society girls. Certainly historical romance (especially the scandalous kind) is more fun than writing technical documents!
This author happily resides in Tehachapi, California with her family.
Catherine writes for Entangled Publishing’s Scandalous historical line and is thrilled to be part of their family of writers!
Thank you for the lovely review. You made my day. 🙂