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Bad Luck Abroad #3
The Bad Luck Wedding Night
Deserted on her wedding night by her husband Nicholas, a spy in the service of the Crown, Sarah, Lady Weston, has found new happiness as a professional wedding designer, but her contentment is thrown into turmoil by the return of her husband, who, after a decade apart, has decided to woo his wife once again. Original.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 3, 2001
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Geralyn Dawson
27 books219 followersGeralyn Dawson is the USA Today bestselling author of over twenty novels. She is a three-time finalist for the prestigious Romance Writers' of America's RITA award and a recipient of their Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year award. She received Romantic Times magazine's Career Achievement award and its Reviewer's Choice award. In 2009, the American Library Association named her romantic suspense novel, ALWAYS LOOK TWICE, as one of the top ten romances of the year.
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September 11, 2018
Nick Ross and Sarah Simpson's wedding led to a disastrous wedding night with him returning to Scotland after learning he had gained a title. Sarah stayed behind in Texas. For the next ten years they corresponded, until Nick told her he needed her to travel to Scotland. He want an annulment so he can marry again. Nick's sisters like Sarah, so they work to keep Nick and Sarah from ending their marriage.
This is a continuation of Geralyn Dawson's Bad Luck Wedding series. It's a cute story and includes characters from the previous books in the series. My rating: 3.5 Stars.
This is a continuation of Geralyn Dawson's Bad Luck Wedding series. It's a cute story and includes characters from the previous books in the series. My rating: 3.5 Stars.
March 11, 2020
A completely anachronistic historical.
Easy passages over the Atlantic, so much so that people arrive just on time for a party - from across at the Atlantic. I mean, wow!
British nobility marrying American 'commoners'.
Letter writing that follows the H any where and everywhere on the globe.
And wedding planners - did they even have that profession back then and women at the helm?
So chicklit meets HR and a miss mash of things happen.
This begins on a silly funny note that irks but if you hang on, things improve.
But first you have to get over a 10 years separation. They marry, a failed wedding night (not surprising as she’s a terrified 16 and he’s not much older) and they separate the next day, he leaves for England with another (pregnant) woman, tells her to get an annulment but which she never does. So they separate in bitterness but become friends through letters? Why would one even write to such a d-b ex?
Ten years later, he calls/coerces her to England purportedly to help with his sister’s wedding but he has an ulterior motive. He wants an easy annulment in England as he wants to marry an ow. So whence gone the friendship through letters now? But happily good for the angst level!
They meet and things happen, things develop and things conflagration.
As much as the huge number of ancillary characters and mcs from other books annoy, there's one scene that I hugely enjoyed. When the H’s sisters corner her and ask the clueless h about sex in general and her wedding night in particular - and the H learns that eavesdroppers never hear good things about themselves. It was rofl funny!
The H decides he wants a second chance and gets down to wooing his wife. New chances of mu materialize as the old ow surfaces again but the h is more mature now.
Okay anachronisms aside, it was pretty sweet but there were things that nettle -
The long separation was senseless but their young age probably makes it ok.
Them remaining ‘friends’ is absurd in the extreme.
When he leaves her the day after the wedding how could he not realize how much he hurt her by leaving with a girl whose father blames him him for the pregnancy?
I completely disliked this ‘nice’ ow as she could plain see that she's ruining their marriage but never says a word, what ever her excuse. Even in the present, she never apologizes to the h. I felt it was needed.
He needed to grovel more rather than making the h feel guilty over not trusting him. Ruined it for me.
Easy passages over the Atlantic, so much so that people arrive just on time for a party - from across at the Atlantic. I mean, wow!
British nobility marrying American 'commoners'.
Letter writing that follows the H any where and everywhere on the globe.
And wedding planners - did they even have that profession back then and women at the helm?
So chicklit meets HR and a miss mash of things happen.
This begins on a silly funny note that irks but if you hang on, things improve.
But first you have to get over a 10 years separation. They marry, a failed wedding night (not surprising as she’s a terrified 16 and he’s not much older) and they separate the next day, he leaves for England with another (pregnant) woman, tells her to get an annulment but which she never does. So they separate in bitterness but become friends through letters? Why would one even write to such a d-b ex?
Ten years later, he calls/coerces her to England purportedly to help with his sister’s wedding but he has an ulterior motive. He wants an easy annulment in England as he wants to marry an ow. So whence gone the friendship through letters now? But happily good for the angst level!
They meet and things happen, things develop and things conflagration.
As much as the huge number of ancillary characters and mcs from other books annoy, there's one scene that I hugely enjoyed. When the H’s sisters corner her and ask the clueless h about sex in general and her wedding night in particular - and the H learns that eavesdroppers never hear good things about themselves. It was rofl funny!
The H decides he wants a second chance and gets down to wooing his wife. New chances of mu materialize as the old ow surfaces again but the h is more mature now.
Okay anachronisms aside, it was pretty sweet but there were things that nettle -
The long separation was senseless but their young age probably makes it ok.
Them remaining ‘friends’ is absurd in the extreme.
When he leaves her the day after the wedding how could he not realize how much he hurt her by leaving with a girl whose father blames him him for the pregnancy?
I completely disliked this ‘nice’ ow as she could plain see that she's ruining their marriage but never says a word, what ever her excuse. Even in the present, she never apologizes to the h. I felt it was needed.
He needed to grovel more rather than making the h feel guilty over not trusting him. Ruined it for me.
March 9, 2011
Every woman remembers her wedding night...even those women who wish they didn't. Sarah unsucessfully tries not to remember how her husband wooed, wed, and then promptly deserted her in the name of duty almost a decade before on the even of their wedding. She is now successful and content Lady Weston Fort Worth's premiere professional wedding designer. However, her excellent attention to detail, managed somehow to gloss over one important item. Sarah never had her marriage annulled and it is just her bad luck that Nick now finds himself in need of a wife! Thankfully after all his years as a spy in service to the Crown he has learned the virtue of patience, among many other things. Now that he finds himself back in Britain with his his sisters' weddings to plan he finds himself haunted by the woman he never truly left behind.
I have to say, I really enjoyed this romance novel...and I am not one to read romance novels. It had a bit of "wild west meets old England/Scotland" along with a touch of history and plenty of action and adventure thrown in. This made it all thoroughly enjoyable. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the "Bad Luck" series.
I have to say, I really enjoyed this romance novel...and I am not one to read romance novels. It had a bit of "wild west meets old England/Scotland" along with a touch of history and plenty of action and adventure thrown in. This made it all thoroughly enjoyable. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the "Bad Luck" series.
October 30, 2011
I really enjoy this series! It was a little strange to see the girls from the first 2 books grown up in this one though!
June 3, 2022
Charming!
This trilogy is simply charming! Concluding the trilogy is the excellently written, extremely inventive & thoughtful story of Nick and Sarah. I've thoroughly enjoyed these books and look forward to more of the works of Emily March!
This trilogy is simply charming! Concluding the trilogy is the excellently written, extremely inventive & thoughtful story of Nick and Sarah. I've thoroughly enjoyed these books and look forward to more of the works of Emily March!
October 8, 2020
Great characters
June 14, 2019
This is the fourth book in a seven-part series: BAD LUCK BRIDES (see below). So far, this is the best of the bunch; Nick and Sarah’s story is a keeper. This is an unusual tale of two people who marry and soon separate, exchanging letters but not expecting to see each other again.
At the time the story opens, it is the wedding day for Sarah Simpson and Nick Ross. He is eighteen and she is 16 years of age. Sarah’s mother warns her of the dire and painful marriage bed and Sarah becomes over-wrought and refuses.
The next morning, Nick receives a telegram that his two older brothers (the heir and a spare) were both killed and he has become the Earl of Innsbruck. He must leave for England immediately; Sarah refuses to leave Texas. They part but carry on a lively correspondence over 10 years.
Finally, Nick demands that Sarah come to England. The reader and Nick know that he wants an annulment from their marriage so he can marry another. Nick has sent someone to escort her to England (see COLD FEET). When she arrives, Sarah is accosted by three lovely (but trouble-creating) sisters of Nick.
This is a lovely historical novel with lots of humor and pathos. I thoroughly enjoyed it all and missed lots of sleep until this book was completed. Beautiful.
Bad Luck Brides
1. The Bad Luck Wedding Dress (1996)
2. The Bad Luck Wedding Cake (1998)
3. Cold Feet (2000) - (included in A Season in the Highlands)
4. The Bad Luck Wedding Night (2001)
5. Her Bodyguard (2005)
6. Her Scoundrel (2005)
7. Her Outlaw (2007)
At the time the story opens, it is the wedding day for Sarah Simpson and Nick Ross. He is eighteen and she is 16 years of age. Sarah’s mother warns her of the dire and painful marriage bed and Sarah becomes over-wrought and refuses.
The next morning, Nick receives a telegram that his two older brothers (the heir and a spare) were both killed and he has become the Earl of Innsbruck. He must leave for England immediately; Sarah refuses to leave Texas. They part but carry on a lively correspondence over 10 years.
Finally, Nick demands that Sarah come to England. The reader and Nick know that he wants an annulment from their marriage so he can marry another. Nick has sent someone to escort her to England (see COLD FEET). When she arrives, Sarah is accosted by three lovely (but trouble-creating) sisters of Nick.
This is a lovely historical novel with lots of humor and pathos. I thoroughly enjoyed it all and missed lots of sleep until this book was completed. Beautiful.
Bad Luck Brides
1. The Bad Luck Wedding Dress (1996)
2. The Bad Luck Wedding Cake (1998)
3. Cold Feet (2000) - (included in A Season in the Highlands)
4. The Bad Luck Wedding Night (2001)
5. Her Bodyguard (2005)
6. Her Scoundrel (2005)
7. Her Outlaw (2007)
January 20, 2013
This was my favorite of the Bad Luck Abroad series. It takes place in London and in Scotland with enough love, comedy, visits from the original Bad Luck characters and, of course a mystery.
My Favorite to date!
My Favorite to date!
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