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Mayfair Brides #2
The Heiress of Hyde Park
With the death of her brother, the Earl of Woolrich, Lady May Hayworth thought she had no family left—until she discovered his secret journals detailing his many affairs and the love children they produced. Now May is on a quest to find her nieces and bring a little magic into their lives...
Lord Roman Aylesgarth was a hopeless cause as far as anyone was concerned. But Trista Nash, the governess' illegitimate daughter, loved him from the moment she met him. And he, too, loved her and promised to make her his bride. But his family's financial problems forced his hand, and he had to set Trista aside to marry an heiress. Heartbroken and humiliated, Trista ran away, determined to make a new life for herself and her unborn child.
Seven years later, Lady May Hayworth finds Trista working at a milliner's shop in London and changes her life from ordinary to extraordinary in a day. Suddenly, Trista is an heiress and living in Hyde Park. Within her new social circles, it is only a matter of time before she runs into Roman. She tries to avoid him, but Roman is relentless in his pursuit. Her desire for him is still strong, but her fear is stronger. How will Roman react when he learns he has a son? He has never stopped loving her, he claims...but can she trust this man not to break her heart again?
Lord Roman Aylesgarth was a hopeless cause as far as anyone was concerned. But Trista Nash, the governess' illegitimate daughter, loved him from the moment she met him. And he, too, loved her and promised to make her his bride. But his family's financial problems forced his hand, and he had to set Trista aside to marry an heiress. Heartbroken and humiliated, Trista ran away, determined to make a new life for herself and her unborn child.
Seven years later, Lady May Hayworth finds Trista working at a milliner's shop in London and changes her life from ordinary to extraordinary in a day. Suddenly, Trista is an heiress and living in Hyde Park. Within her new social circles, it is only a matter of time before she runs into Roman. She tries to avoid him, but Roman is relentless in his pursuit. Her desire for him is still strong, but her fear is stronger. How will Roman react when he learns he has a son? He has never stopped loving her, he claims...but can she trust this man not to break her heart again?
344 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 3, 2004
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Jacqueline Navin
23 books20 followersJacqueline Navin currently lives in Maryland with her husband and three children. She is originally from Philadelphia and holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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June 18, 2026
I have given a lot of thought to this review. The first book was a little slow for me because it’s focused a lot on balls and drawing room content and less time on the emotions between the characters, but there was a lot of interaction between the characters and I liked the humor and the disagreements and things in the first book but it was not as good as the second book there’s so much more going on in the second book. The second book made me laugh and tear up at parts, and it was fast, paced all requirements for a good book in my opinion.
In the second book, you have a previous love affair between the main characters, a secret child, a marriage of convenience and then they meet up again years later and there’s a lot of hurt feelings and misunderstandings and this child is caught in the middle and feels lost and confused. There’s also a resentful younger sister involved. The younger sister has a much larger character arc than the sisters in the first book who were unlikable most of the book and then suddenly likable at the end, without any real understanding of the change, you saw the characters develop more in the second book than, in the first I definitely would read the second book and would recommend reading the first because of the story between May and Robert, the benefactor of the two women in the next two books and her lover and how they have secrets and the discovery of what some of the secrets are. their relationship It’s extra depth the story and therefore. You should read the first book and the second book in order. It is important to note, however that you do not need to read all the books in the series. They each have their own ending the carryover is through the benefactor and her lover. I’m about to start the third, so it will be entering to whether it can live up to the second book or whether it’s stuck in the category of the first and just OK.
In the second book, you have a previous love affair between the main characters, a secret child, a marriage of convenience and then they meet up again years later and there’s a lot of hurt feelings and misunderstandings and this child is caught in the middle and feels lost and confused. There’s also a resentful younger sister involved. The younger sister has a much larger character arc than the sisters in the first book who were unlikable most of the book and then suddenly likable at the end, without any real understanding of the change, you saw the characters develop more in the second book than, in the first I definitely would read the second book and would recommend reading the first because of the story between May and Robert, the benefactor of the two women in the next two books and her lover and how they have secrets and the discovery of what some of the secrets are. their relationship It’s extra depth the story and therefore. You should read the first book and the second book in order. It is important to note, however that you do not need to read all the books in the series. They each have their own ending the carryover is through the benefactor and her lover. I’m about to start the third, so it will be entering to whether it can live up to the second book or whether it’s stuck in the category of the first and just OK.
June 27, 2023
this book and i are in a toxic relationship. i absolutely love the premise and lady may and robert so much i would’ve love so many more chapters about them. but GRACE first of all such a terrible character having the same as me is never fun. she was hanging out just this side of crimson peak for 80% of the book but then all the sudden she’s reformed and cured of all of her issues of which there is a stack.
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