You May Kiss the Bride - Lisa Berne

Written by Lisa Berne
Read by Carolyn Morris
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Penhallow Dynasty Series, Book 1
Publisher: HarperCollins
File size: 315528 KB
Release date: March 28, 2017
Duration: 10:57:16

In Berne’s lively and well-researched debut Regency romance, Livia Stuart knows that hers is far from a fairy-tale existence. She was orphaned at the age of six in faraway India and summarily packed off to live with her sole English relatives.

Her Aunt Bella and Uncle Charles see her only as an expense. Now 18, Livia is no real beauty, has no inheritance and little education, and exists in that strange space between servant and gentry that leaves her completely vulnerable and lacking in prospects for advancement.

Wealthy and arrogant, Gabriel Penhallow knows it’s time to fulfill his dynastic duty. All he must do is follow “The Penhallow way”—find a biddable bride, produce an heir and a spare, and then live separate lives. It’s worked so well for generations.

Livia had a brief but memorable first encounter with Penhallow; but their second meeting, at a ball in honor of Gabriel’s likely offer of marriage to condescending and aloof Miss Cecily Orr, is far more remarkable. It ends with Livia and Gabriel being found in a compromising situation. He awkwardly makes the obligatory proposal to save Livia’s reputation, but the two of them struggle to wring happiness from their hasty marriage until Livia decides it’s time to stand up for her self.

Livia’s transformation into a diamond of the first water makes Gabriel realize he desperately wants the woman who somehow provoked him into that kiss. And for all the ladies who’ve thrown themselves at him, it’s the one who wants to flee whom he now wants. But how will he keep this independent miss from flying away?