The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sheri Cobb South

Unsurprisingly, the lady herself is appalled – by Ethan’s working-class accent, his ill-fitting clothes and most of all, his lowly origins - and makes it abundantly clear that while she has no alternative but to obey her father’s instruction and marry him, she dislikes him intensely and has no intention of being an affectionate spouse. He discovers that the duke’s finances are in dire straits, and offers to pay him a large sum of money in exchange for Helen’s hand in marriage. Lady Helen Radney, daughter of the Duke of Reddington might be beautiful, but she is widely known for her shrewish disposition and her ability to wound an unwanted suitor at twenty paces with her sharp tongue.īut Ethan is well and truly smitten, and won’t be deterred. The owner of a cotton mill and various other businesses in the north of England, Ethan is on a rare visit to London in the company of a couple of friends, when he espies the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and immediately determines to marry her. The one thing he does have in common with many an aristocratic hero, however, is that he’s incredibly wealthy. Mr Ethan Brundy isn’t titled, he isn’t a gentleman or a snappy dresser and while not unattractive, is no well-muscled Adonis. This thoroughly charming Regency Romance, originally published in 1999 and now re-issued in digital formats, features a type of hero rarely found in historical romance. This book is beautifully written and I would recommend it to everyone who loves sweet historical romance. There is great lessons in this book like 'Don't judge a book by it's Cover'. She learns to look at the character of a person and not just their looks and origins. As the story progresses she sees that her husband is not what he seems. She is haughty and snobbish to her new husband and wants nothing to do with him. The heroine cannot believe her father is making her marry the low born miller.

The heroine's father is a duke who is financial straits and when the hero offers the duke $75,000 pounds for his daughers hand in marriage the duke accepts. He sees the heroine at the theater and falls instantly in love. He is not handsome or refined and his taste in clothes is awful. When the story opens he now owns the mill and is a very rich man. The hero is a working class man who grew up in a workhouse and eventually was sold to a mill owner. This is not a typical historical romance in as it is not about two protagonists from the same social enviornment. Read this book on the recommendation in the forward by Mary Balogh, who is one of my favorite authors.

The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sheri Cobb South