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An Impossible Attraction-Brenda Joyce
The de Warenne Dynasty
Victorian England, 1845
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February 23, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0373774609
ISBN-10: 0373774605
Reviewed by Farley, February 2010
Stephen Mowbry, Duke of Clarewood and secret bastard son of Sir Rex de Warenne, has spent his life fulfilling his duty. His confused childhood had been one desperate quest after another to excel in his every endeavor in a futile bid to win the affection of the cold man who had raised him, but no achievement can ever be lofty enough to undo his mother’s one great sin: him. He has long since resigned himself to what can never be, and instead, has devoted his life to being worthy of Clarewood. Now, a wealthy and influential peer, neither the open adoration of the ton nor the private acceptance and affection of the de Warennes have ever been able to completely erase the deeply embedded scars of rejection.
Alexandra Bolton has turned her back on love and marriage for years to be the mother her sisters needed and the keeper her father is intent on routinely evading. Taking in sewing from the local gentry to supplement their income has lowered her and her family in their esteem, but her regrets have never been sharper than when her father presents her with an elderly widower for a suitor. Her father’s incessant drinking and gambling have steadily worsened their circumstances to the point that refusal is a luxury she can no longer afford. Marriage to the squire means her family will never want for anything again. It is the right thing to do.
When the besotted squire requests her and her family’s presence with him at the Harrington ball, Alexandra readily accepts so her sisters can have the rare chance to enjoy the privileges their rank should have accorded them in the first place. Optimism meets snobbery, however, as the other guests make clear what their reduced circumstances entitle them to–and it is not rubbing elbows with their betters.
An unexpected act of kindness brings two unlikely people together, but an impossible attraction binds them more firmly than they can have imagined. Stephen had been denied his father’s love once; he wasn’t about to be denied Alexandra in his bed, and pursues her with his charm, his generosity…and her sisters’ well-being. Duty demands that Alexandra ignore his dishonorable intentions, but martyrdom can only be bearable for so long. In a moment of weakness, Alexandra defies her father and respectability, and plunges headlong into romance, passion…heartbreak.
An Impossible Attraction resonates with the stirring storytelling and the affecting characters that readers have come to love and treasure from Brenda Joyce over the years, infused with fresh new characters making the offering not only about the timeless triumph of love, but also a celebration of the family in its most basic and touching form.
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