Chasing the Bride

Tabitha wants a love match. However, she is betrothed, and has been since before she was born, to a vile man who is after her dowry. Worse, it is her father’s dying wish that she marry the odious man. Hudson has been in love with Tabitha since the moment he first saw her. The problem? He is her betrothed’s man of business. When they first visit Marrywell, the two of them have a great time, at least until the Viscount shows up. What will happen if she runs away from her wedding? A beautiful romance. Tabitha and Hudson are so good together. Their romance starts sweet and turns steamy. What happens when they return to London? Something totally unexpected and absolutely awesome. An enjoyable story and a great addition to the series. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.

Tabitha is promised to one man but is in love with another. She’s so determined to make her Dad proud of her that she struggles to do what she wants. In the end the love, respect and understanding that Hudson show’s her wins out! Great love story.

Back in Marrywell once again in Chasing the Bride, the sixth book of the Lords in Love series. Another satisfying story from talented author Erica Ridley. Regency romances always remind us just how rigid and strict the rules were then. And how little official standing and power women had. Lady Tabitha Kerr was promised at birth to be the Viscount Oldfield’s bride. He’s an old friend of her father’s and her father feels indebted to him from past events. That should tell you something: an old friend of her father’s? Probably not a dashing young man then. Nope. Creepy, yes. Debauched, yes. Her father is terminally ill, and his dying wish is that this marriage will heal the longstanding rift between the families. But Viscount Oldfield is not so much interested in the husband-wife thing or bringing the families together as he is in getting his hands on her dowry. Tabitha doesn’t want this. Why would she? She’s a young woman who doesn’t wants the riches and status a match with a Viscount will bring but instead longs for an ordinary life with a man who truly cares about her, However, the rules are the rules, fathers are in charge, and her father demands she honor his last wish to prove she is a dutiful daughter and earn his love. Mr. Hudson Frampton escorted Tabitha to the Marrywell Festival in Oldfield’s absence, who had pressing matters with other young women. Hampton is his lordship’s trusted man of business, handles and fixes everything and has made his own fortune investing for himself as he invests for the Viscount. He’s also a man who has admired Lady Tabitha for a long time, and he IS a dashing young man. Handsome, strong, virile. But a common man, no right talking to a Lady, no right thinking the thoughts he does about Tabitha. Their time together at Marrywell is perfect, though. Feels right, feels natural. For him it’s a last look at what he can’t have. For her it’s a last chance to dream and live a little before life as she knows it ends. Oldfield needs that dowry and changes his mind about the timing of the marriage ceremony. Tabitha begs her father to delay to no avail. She tries her best but she can’t go through with it and she runs away. Guess who is sent to find her? And since he’s a wizard at business and handling things and fixing things it doesn’t take him long at all to find her in – Marrywell! Under an assumed name, A Mrs. whose Mr. isn’t there right this minute. Until Hudson shows up and wants to take her back. She convinces him (not that hard, considering how he already feels) to give them two weeks to pretend to the town to be husband and wife and give her just a little bit bigger glimpse of that life she’ll never have once she and the Viscount are wed. There’s no festival happening in Marrywell right now. It’s just the two of them, and that pretending starts to feel like not pretending after all. Of course we know where this is all going, don’t we, but it is so, so, so much fun getting there. Tabitha and Hudson are perfect together. There are many laugh-out-loud moments as well as tender, heart-pounding moments, and a view into just how reprehensible Oldfield is. This is a story you won’t want to miss. Thanks to the author for providing an advance copy of Chasing the Bride to me as a member of Erica’s Review Crew for my reading pleasure and honest review. Everything this author writes is a pleasure to read. I voluntarily leave this review; all opinions are my own.