Barely a Lady (The Drake's Rakes, #1)
by:
Eileen Dreyer (author)
Olivia Grace has secrets that could destroy her. One of the greatest of these is the Earl of Gracechurch, who married and divorced her five years earlier. Abandoned and disgraced, Grace has survived those years at the edge of respectability. Then she stumbles over Jack on the battlefield of...
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Olivia Grace has secrets that could destroy her. One of the greatest of these is the Earl of Gracechurch, who married and divorced her five years earlier. Abandoned and disgraced, Grace has survived those years at the edge of respectability. Then she stumbles over Jack on the battlefield of Waterloo, and he becomes an even more dangerous secret. For not only is he unconscious, he is clad in an enemy uniform.But worse, when Jack finally wakes in Olivia's care, he can't remember how he came to be on a battlefield in Belgium. In fact, he can remember nothing of the last five years. He thinks he and Olivia are still blissfully together. To keep him from being hanged for a traitor, Olivia must pretend she and Jack are still married. To unearth the real traitors, Olivia and Jack must unravel the truth hidden within his faulty memory. To save themselves and the friends who have given them sanctuary, they must stand against their enemies, even as they both keep their secrets.In the end, can they risk everything to help Jack recover his lost memories, even though the truth may destroy them both?
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B003JTHXYK
Publish date: July 1st 2010
Publisher: Forever
Pages no: 436
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Historical Romance,
Regency,
Regency Romance
Series: The Drake's Rakes (#1)
I liked it, but it felt like the spark in the book was missing.
I would NEVER, EVER take this excuse for a man back.
4.5This one shouldn't have worked at all for me. It has some elements I usually hate in romance booksYet, I couldn't stop reading, I just had to know what happened next and how it all unravelled. The stuff the heroine had to go through, in large part of actions of the Hero based on his inability to ...
Barely A Lady takes place in Europe, in the year 1815. Divorce as we know it does not exist in this time. In these times, a divorced woman is shunned from polite society and is converted to being a persona non grata. Such is the fate Olivia Grace has endured as a scheme orchestrated by her husband...
Livvie's husband believed all the lies told against her and threw her pregnant self out where she was penniless and had to try to make a living to support their child. 5 years later she finds him in a French military uniform injured on a field of battle and has to try to figure out whether he's a t...