The Bride Wore Pearls (MacLachlan Family & Friends, #7) (Fraternitas Aureae Crucis, #3)

by Liz Carlyle

"Intriguing...engaging...an illicit delight" --Stephanie Laurens "Liz Carlyle weaves passion and intrigue with a master's touch." --Karen Robards Beneath the elegant facade of Victorian high society, the rules of danger and desire are the only rules that apply for the mysterious men of the St James Society. New York Times bestseller Liz Carlyle carries readers deep into this realm of intrigue and passion once more in her breathtaking historical romance sizzler, The Bride Wore Pearls. The third book in her sexy, compelling, action-packed series, The Bride Wore Pearls is a scorching story of a very proper lady who flees her home in a far corner of the British Empire, entrusting her safety and her heart to a dangerous outlaw in Victorian London. Amanda Quick and Gaelen Foley fans will most certainly be enthralled.

• ISBN10: 1410452808
• ISBN13: 9781410452801
• Publish Date: 22 November 2012 (first published 31 July 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 8 June 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Thorndike Press
• Edition: Large type / large print edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 637
• Language: English

Reviews

[Amanda]

Something like a 2.5.

Coming into this series on the third book did me no favors. Often, with historical romance series, it doesn't matter much when you start the series, but it felt like a lot had been established already in earlier books.

With this book, things just seem to happen, without me being able to figure out why. Most of the time this happens, it's because I lack the back story. Again, likely because I started in the middle of a series.

(And, also, how much value would you give blurbs by other authors? This one had a blurb by an author whose book I marked DNF, which makes me wonder...)

Considering the heroine was Indian, I was hoping for more attention paid to cultures, but with Anisha raised as an Englishwoman, and little page time given to her Indian heritage (even her children were obviously white), it wasn't quite as satisfying for me.