Series: Mackenzies and McBrides Book #5
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 291
Rating: 4 Stars
How I Got It: Purchased
Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: Berkley Sensations
Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads
Juliana St. John was raised to be very proper. After a long engagement, her wedding day dawns—only for Juliana to find herself jilted at the altar.
Fleeing the mocking crowd, she stumbles upon Elliot McBride, the tall, passionate Scot who was her first love. His teasing manner gives her an idea, and she asks Elliot to save her from an uncertain future—by marrying her…
After escaping brutal imprisonment, Elliot has returned to Scotland a vastly wealthy yet tormented man. Now Juliana has her hands full restoring his half-ruined manor in the Scottish Highlands and trying to repair the broken heart of the man some call irredeemably mad. Though beautiful and spirited, Juliana wonders if that will be enough to win a second chance at love.
Fleeing the mocking crowd, she stumbles upon Elliot McBride, the tall, passionate Scot who was her first love. His teasing manner gives her an idea, and she asks Elliot to save her from an uncertain future—by marrying her…
After escaping brutal imprisonment, Elliot has returned to Scotland a vastly wealthy yet tormented man. Now Juliana has her hands full restoring his half-ruined manor in the Scottish Highlands and trying to repair the broken heart of the man some call irredeemably mad. Though beautiful and spirited, Juliana wonders if that will be enough to win a second chance at love.
Review
This book had a lot of my catnip in it. Plus, I really enjoy Jennifer Ashley's writing.
This combines two tropes: marriage of convenience-which is a favorite-and unrequited love-which I don't like so much. But they worked very well together here. It probably helps that they both always loved the other.
Juliana was a fabulous heroine. She's strong, intelligent, and open-minded. She's a big list-maker which I connect with. And I really liked her relationship with her step mother. It's really easy to go full Cinderella with step parents.
Elliot had a lot of the characteristics I like. He is physically scared, but more interestingly, has PTSD. That is a major conflict for him and I love watching him deal with it. He has to figure out how to fit the new Elliot into his old life.
The romance was good and you could feel the attraction between Elliott and Juliana. I certainly cared about them and liked reading about them figuring out what it means to be a couple. I believe in the power of love, but there may have been a bit too much of the idea that love will fix PTSD.
Overall, this was beautiful story and I would recommend it. This is a really good series, too.
Thanks for reading!
Holly
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