The Forbidden Wife
After her mother died, Ashley Jones spent her childhood in care and foster homes. Alone in the world, she desperately needs her new live-in job as n author's assistant. But she is filled with trepidation when she arrives at isolated Blackwood Manor and meets the formidable Jack Marchant.Ashley...
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After her mother died, Ashley Jones spent her childhood in care and foster homes. Alone in the world, she desperately needs her new live-in job as n author's assistant. But she is filled with trepidation when she arrives at isolated Blackwood Manor and meets the formidable Jack Marchant.Ashley thinks she is just a drab nobody…but her heart goes out to handsome but arrogant, tortured Jack, though she has no idea what troubles him. What is the secret that he keeps hidden? It is only after Jack proposes marriage and Ashley joyfully accepts that she finds out…and, for this innocent bride-to-be, the truth is shocking….
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780373129959 (0373129955)
Publish date: May 24th 2011
Publisher: Harlequin
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
I couldn't get into this -- it seemed to so thoroughly miss the point.
Ok, I did not really enjoy this book. There could have been a great story, IF the issues Ashley had faced in her childhood were actually followed thru. The story started to then, nada. Same with Jack. There are hints to his military career, and a tragedy, but the just blah. The last entire section i...