Julia sees something in him that offers protection from her parents she proposes marriage and off they hie to the remote mansion. There is a lot more to both Julia and Jasper than society knows. He needs a wife with money to repair his remote decrepit mansion and to help him raise the bastard children.īut of course, all is not as it seems on the surface. Captain Jasper Blunt, badly scarred from battle, has a reputation as both a war hero and a cruel man with a houseful of bastard children born to him by his dead mistress. It is in fact her parents who are sickly, and unknown to her, her father has turned away all her suitors because they did not live close enough for Julia to devote her life to caring for her selfish parents. Julia Wynchwood has a reputation in society as a sickly spinster, left on the matrimonial shelf after several seasons. It’s got echoes of the stories of Beauty and the Beast and Bluebeard. This is very much a Victorian romance fairy tale. Montgomery, and I was pleased to read in the Author’s Note that this was intentional. It also reminded me of one of my favorite books, The Blue Castle by L.M. If you are already familiar with her work, this book is reminiscent of The Matrimonial Advertisement. I’ve read all of the novels by Mimi Matthews, and this is one of her best. From the publisher: A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger.
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