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Title: The Temporary Wife (Signet Regency Romance, 9143) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0-451-19143-9 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another unforgettable Balogh!
Comment: Anthony Earhart, Marquess of Staunton, desperately wants to spite the father he hates. Summoned home after eight years' absence, he knows that he is expected to marry a chit straight from the schoolroom because she is his father's choice of bride for him; a suitable match for a future duke. Well, he has no intention of conforming. He decides to marry the most unsuitable woman he can find: a mousy nobody. So - as he is determined not to stoop lower than a gentlewoman fallen on hard times - he advertises for a governess, intending to marry the most submissive and plain of the applicants.
Charity Duncan seems to meet Anthony's requirements. Little does he know that her submissive manner is assumed, due to her having lost previous employment because she stood up for the rights of a chambermaid. Dressed in dull brown, she stares at the floor and seems so perfect for Anthony's purpose that he proposes to her.
Charity accepts, because her family is very poor and her brother is struggling to pay off debts so that he can marry his sweetheart. After all, the marquess promises that she will only have to play the part of his wife for a matter of weeks. Then he will give her a home and a pension - six thousand pounds a year! - and she can have her freedom, except for the wedding ring. Anthony himself, he declares, never wants to marry for real, never wants to have children of his own.
So they marry, and Charity accompanies Anthony to Enfield, the Duke of Withingsby's home. There, she finds an apparently cold, unloving family, and realises that her husband wasn't joking when he said he wanted to spite the father he loathed. However, Anthony has seriously underestimated Charity...
Gradually, she breaks down the ice which surrounds her husband's heart and, bit by bit, she becomes his confidant. She, on the other hand, learns that passion doesn't have to have anything to do with love.
While she seems to be making progress in helping Anthony to reconcile with his family, isn't she only hastening the time when he'll inform her that he doesn't need her any more, and thus of her own departure? After all, he did marry a temporary wife...
In Balogh's inimitable style, she gives us a poignant story which examines relationships in all their manifestations, and shows us that love and hate are often closer than we think. And typically in a Balogh novel, the apparent villain is not so evil as he might have initially appeared. This is a wonderful romantic tearjerker, well worth the secondhand price you might have to pay!
Rating: 5
Summary: As always, Mary Balogh delivers a wonderful read!
Comment: Anthony is absent 8 years from his home when he receives the request (order) from his father to return immediately. Anthony is independently wealthy and independent in all other ways, so why would he return to the family he has not set eyes on in 8 years? Well...
Anthony, the heir to a dukedom, marries an impoverished mouse of a gentlewoman below his station. He acquires this "temporary wife" in order to "stick it" to his estranged father (the duke) after he has been summoned home.
His bride, Charity Duncan, seems like the perfect little "mouse" to enrage his father. His plan is to marry her, use her for a few weeks to assert his independence from his father, then separate from her permanently.
Charity agrees to this because her family is in debt and, as the eldest sibling, feels this marriage is the only way to save her family from poverty and hardship. You see, Anthony will make her a wealthy woman for life if she marries him and lets him use her as a pawn for only a few weeks.
Things do not go as planned for either of them. Charity's warm presence in her new husband's stuffy, loveless family causes heartache, enlightenment, healing, love, grief, etc. Anthony learns very quickly that Charity is NOT a mouse. Charity learns quickly that there is more to Anthony than the cold, calculating, rigid man he seems.
The relationship between Anthony and Charity is a unique one and develops with care. This is NOT a case of "First comes love, then comes marriage". The sequence of events in their relationship is unconventional and they all unfold in a very satisfying way.
Great book! Read it!
Rating: 5
Summary: One of Balogh's Best
Comment: Lord Anthony Earheart marries an impoverished, mousy woman to upset his father. But he gets more than he bargained for. Charity may be mousy, but she is stronger than she seems.
Charity is a catalyst. Her arrival results in lots of emotional turmoil for the people of this household. But in the end, the results are worth all the pain.
In the hands of the wrong writer, Anthony's father could have been yet another eeevil parent stereotype. But this is a Mary Balogh novel, and life is never so simple in her books.
The characters grow in the course of this book. The best moments are often the most subtle ones.
Anne M. Marble Reviewer, All About Romance
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Title: Dark Angel (Signet Regency Romance, No 7953) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451179536 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: The Plumed Bonnet (Signet Regency Romance) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451190513 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: A Precious Jewel (Signet Regency Romance) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451176197 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: An Unacceptable Offer by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451153146 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Tempting Harriet (Signet Regency Romance, 7952) by Mary Balogh ISBN: 0451179528 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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