Patience

The Three Vices Series

by C.H. Admirand

Viscount Rexley's family fortune is on the brink of bankruptcy and his father is being blackmailed. Marrying an heiress to protect their fortune and family name is the only solution, but before he can begin his search, he has a dawn appointment to keep. Lady Patience is impetuous, impulsive and impossible. But her parents have a plan to secure a marriage, and their daughter's future intending to find a gentleman of noble birth (with deep pockets), who has NEVER met their daughter, but first she intends to stop her childhood friend from getting killed in a gentleman's duel.

Genres: Historical Romance

332 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 2007

About the author

C.H. was born in Aiken, South Carolina, but her parents moved back to northern New Jersey where she grew up. She believes in fate, destiny, and love at first sight. C.H. fell in love at first sight when she was seventeen. She was married for 41 wonderful years until her husband lost his battle with cancer. Soul mates, their hearts will be joined forever. They have three grown children—one son-in-law, two grandsons, two rescue dogs, and two rescue grand-cats.

Her characters rarely follow the synopsis she outlines for them…but C.H. has learned to listen to her characters! Her heroes will always have a few of her husband’s best qualities: his honesty, his integrity, his compassion for those in need, and his killer broad shoulders. C.H. writes about the things she loves most: Family, her Irish and English Ancestry, Baking, and Gardening.

C.H. is currently spending time in Regency England, writing for Dragonblade Publishing. Book four in her new series, The Lords of Vice, is in her editor’s hands. Pre-Order is live for Dragonblade’s 2021 holiday collections. Her novella, A Promise Kept…A Love Unspoken, will be in Star of Wonder: A Historical Romance Collection #1. She’s currently writing Rescued by the Lyon for The Lyon’s Den, releasing in February 2022. Watch for her new series featuring the fabulous O’Malleys from The Lords of Vice Series!

If you love Historical Western Romance, venture back to the Old West with her bestselling Irish Western Series. Perhaps you’d rather read her Medieval Trilogy: Mo Ghra, Mo Chroi, Go Deo (translation: My Love, My Heart, Forever,) set in 11th Century England.

Is Contemporary Romance more to your taste? Stop by the Circle G Ranch in Pleasure, Texas; the Claddagh Ranch in Emerson, Colorado; or Small Town USA ~ Apple Grove, Ohio ~ to see what the descendants from her historical romances are up to. While you’re at the Apple Grove Diner, be sure to try a slice of Peggy McCormack’s Buttermilk Pie…it snagged injured U.S. Marshal Ben Justiss’ attention and his heart in A Second Chance For Justiss!

C.H. loves to hear from readers! Stop by her website https://www.chadmirand.com and click on the icon to your favorite social media platform to see what she’s up to.

This award-winning multi-published author’s books are available in paperback, hardcover, trade paperback, magazine, e-book, large print, and audio book.

Happy Reading!

C.H. Admirand

Reviews

[✨faith✨trust✨pixiedust✨ Dead Account; Not Coming Back · Rating 2 out of 5]

So here's the deal with this book: I was 11, it was the week before my family left on our summer vacation, and my sister checked this out from the library for our trip. She read it first, and then passed it on to my other sister, who in turn passed it on to me. We all agreed that it was terrible, and yet we all read it. I have no explanation for this.

So here's the deal with the plot: Patience is a girl who lives in the British countryside and in the first chapter of the book dresses up as a man to intercept her best friend and stop him from dueling with this guy, who supposedly deflowered his sister or something. So, she runs into the duel like a complete idiot and gets shot. Turns out the guy doing the deflowering is her newly betrothed. Because crappy romance book. And on goes the strangest book I've ever read.

~A list of what happens (I haven't been able to find a copy in years, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist anymore, so spoilers don't really matter anymore)~

~She thinks that she is ugly but is described by both the book and literally everyone else as being an unearthly beauty
~She constantly faints in order to get out of difficult social situations or just when she's bored I guess
~Her best friend completely disappears from the plot
~At one point, she thinks a "mistress" is a very good thing (which her cousins say is not the case but don't tell her why) and goes to her jerky ex-boyfriend and asks him if she'd make a good mistress, and he's like, "Oh boy, yes please" and starts kissing her, and in comes her betrothed who beats the crap out of him. I'm pretty sure she faints at one point
~She doesn't know what sex is but tells everyone she does but on her wedding night, she thought they were just going to cuddle
~They have sex anyway but she faints to get out of it
~Her betrothed has an evil twin half-brother who is sullying his good name
~They have graphic sex like twice (and I was 11--why did my sisters not warn me??)
~She gets kidnapped by the evil twin half-brother and faints her way out of it

I love this book for some reason even though it's probably just about the worst thing I've ever read. It holds a special place in my heart.

[Rod · Rating 4 out of 5]

Essentially a clean story, but some closed door type heat.
An arranged marriage made by the parents of both parties. His father is being blackmailed and needs money. Her father wants her to marry but as she is quite unusual, acts without thinking, it is a challenge.
I enjoyed the interaction between the 3 cousins, as well Patience’s thoughts, which seem to go off at a tangent quite frequently, plus her solutions and methods of dealing with different situations. And then there were the great aunts which they all feared!
Rexley’s problems are finding a doppelgänger and a blackmailer. Sometimes his correctness seemed at odds to his feelings, and you could argue the ending was slightly chaotic. How did Reddington get free?
However, I did enjoy the story
I was reading an ebook version of what I understand is an updated version of a book from a trilogy, one for each cousin. I do hope the other 2 eventually become available.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was looking for a book to fill the void while I waited for another book to arrive. I was less than excited about this one once I started reading it. This could be just me but did not take to the characters.

Yes, Patience was a hellion, but I wanted to see more spirit in her and less worrying about other people. I also felt the relationship with her cousins was forced. Though she was trying to protect them I don't feel it was genuine.

I felt the hero could have been I little stronger especially when trying to find out who was after his family.

Overall, a sweet book but one that didn't inspire me to want to pick it up every day, And not one I want to read again.

[Rebekah Carulli Hanson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome! Great writing!

[Isabelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Character development was poor, with the heroine not acting as you would think based on the description of a strong, athletic, smart woman. She did really stupid things like asking a man she hates and tries to avoid to meet her in private to ask him if she is suitable to become a mistress???

I also did not really feel the romance between the 2.

Overall, rather lack luster and I am not planning to read it again.