This instance shapes her to the point that when she seeks out Justin 10 years later, Evie has entirely lost interest in her appearance and dresses in most a most utilitarian style.Ĭalling upon the old IOU, Evie requests usage of Justins ancestral home, in order to host a wedding for a client.

She makes other unfortunate entrances also at this houseparty, and overhears some unkind ladies disparging her looks to the extent that she feels she must be terribly ugly - golem like in fact. Enterprising lass that she is, upon bumping into him emerging from an older (married) ladies room she strikes a deal of silence which will leave him in her debt. Young Evie encounters Justin first at her parents houseparty, launching her older sister. Squandering spangles upon novels which have been less decorated that I might fully impress upon you, the reader, this tomes glorious worth!! Upon reading a book of this caliber, I regret all the 5 stars which have gone before. But who will protect him from the charms of this alluring woman-and the promise of a matchless love worth any risk?

Pursued by enemy agents amid a whirl of festivities, Justin vows to keep Evie safe. Unaware of the daring double life he conceals behind a cloak of amiable gentility, Evie and her guests descend on North Cross Abbey. Justin is happy to oblige, but his hospitality may place the wedding party in peril. All she needs is his scenic ancestral home, where she’s determined to show the world that even a woman innocent in the ways of love can turn a simple wedding into the social event of the season. Now, desperate to save her aunt’s foundering nuptial-planning enterprise, she’s ready for Justin to repay the favor. Award-winning author Connie Brockway takes readers to the elegant drawing rooms and sprawling country estates of Victorian England in this captivating tale of a woman who must keep an irresistible nobleman’s most scandalous secret-without losing her heart.Įvelyn Whyte has never forgotten the night she first met Justin Powell-or the shocking indiscretion that left the raffish military hero eternally in her debt.

Bridal Favors by Connie Brockway