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DOUBTFUL BRIDE
A family wedding. A bossy older sister. A vengeful ghost.Leigh is happy to be bridesmaid for her cousin’s wedding. She is less happy with her sister’s bossy ways and rather worried to discover the wedding venue is haunted.Leigh is not a pushy person, and she does have a secret. As a child she talked with ghosts and they have never frightened her. But the one that haunts her bedchamber demands she help him and turns vindictive when she refuses.The young bride isn't happy but won’t say why. Leigh’s sister bids fair to ruin her reputation and the bridegroom very nearly breaks his neck before he arrives at the splendid country house.Leigh does her best to hold the wedding together and solve everyone’s problem and in doing so happens to solve her own romantic dreams.THE MATFEN AFFAIR is a standalone story in the Romantic Affair historical fiction series. If you enjoy Regency tales, romance, and a slight tinge of danger, then you’ll love this exciting story.Buy THE MATFEN AFFAIR today and enjoy the family wedding and all its disasters."As a classic Regency Romance, this is a must if you like the genre. I can't praise it highly enough."© Nicky Galliers
253 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 17, 2017
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Jen Black
31 books6 followersJen's home town is Newcastle upon Tyne in the north east of England. She lived within sound of Durham Cathedral bells until she was seven, then moved to Stockton where she attended Grangefield Grammar School, and later went to Newcastle University as a mature student and gained an Honours degree in English Language & Literature. Work in various industrial, public and academic libraries in the north east followed, including a stint as library manager at Gateshead College for a number of years.
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She updates her blog three times a week: http://jenblackauthor.blogspot.com
and can also be found on Twitter and Facebook as well as Goodreads.
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October 23, 2017
This book has received a Discovering Diamonds Review:
Helen Hollick
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' ... a ghost story that is seamlessly blended into the plot and adds a delightful frisson of mystery and danger...an absolute gem of a novel,'
Helen Hollick
founder #DDRevs
' ... a ghost story that is seamlessly blended into the plot and adds a delightful frisson of mystery and danger...an absolute gem of a novel,'
March 27, 2017
If you want a light, uncomplicated read, this book is for you. I knew it was a ghost story when I started to read it and had been assured that it wasn’t a ‘horror, get behind the sofa’ sort of tale, for which I was highly relieved.
The story is set in the past, so courting and carriages appear; don’t we all love the romance of those times! This story has an interesting mix of characters, from Leigh’s rather headstrong sister to the rather-too-young-and-spoilt bride, from the rather delicious Robert to the stiff-collared Bernard.
I felt that the mishaps and misadventures of the young married couple rather detracted from what I felt should be the main storyline – that of the ghost and his past which caused him to haunt the place; I felt that in all truth, the author could have made more of the ghost’s background and reasons for the haunting. While I was glad that it was not a horrific ghost story, I think I would have liked the odd shiver, which I really didn’t get, in spite of the coldness and so on. I felt that, all in all, Leigh was rather too used to seeing ghosts that it neither surprised her nor bothered her much, except when she finally realised that the ghost could be a danger to her and that she was expected, somehow, to resolve the situation.
Having said that, I did enjoy reading this book; the writing was good, the characters well-developed and you could identify with the main character, Leigh, especially in her love for Robert. I don’t appreciate books where I can’t ‘get into’ the characters and I did with this book, even with Lucy, who needed some ‘help’ to get her marriage off the ground – what a good bunch of cousins and brother she had!
The story is set in the past, so courting and carriages appear; don’t we all love the romance of those times! This story has an interesting mix of characters, from Leigh’s rather headstrong sister to the rather-too-young-and-spoilt bride, from the rather delicious Robert to the stiff-collared Bernard.
I felt that the mishaps and misadventures of the young married couple rather detracted from what I felt should be the main storyline – that of the ghost and his past which caused him to haunt the place; I felt that in all truth, the author could have made more of the ghost’s background and reasons for the haunting. While I was glad that it was not a horrific ghost story, I think I would have liked the odd shiver, which I really didn’t get, in spite of the coldness and so on. I felt that, all in all, Leigh was rather too used to seeing ghosts that it neither surprised her nor bothered her much, except when she finally realised that the ghost could be a danger to her and that she was expected, somehow, to resolve the situation.
Having said that, I did enjoy reading this book; the writing was good, the characters well-developed and you could identify with the main character, Leigh, especially in her love for Robert. I don’t appreciate books where I can’t ‘get into’ the characters and I did with this book, even with Lucy, who needed some ‘help’ to get her marriage off the ground – what a good bunch of cousins and brother she had!
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