Bridal Favors
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Publisher Description
Book 2 “The Wedding Planner” Series
Can an innocent wedding planner ever hope to be a bride?
As the niece of the most sought after wedding planner in all of England, Evelyn Whyte is desperate to save her aunt’s foundering business. All she needs is the perfect venue for a wedding. And there is no more perfect venue than North Cross Abbey, the ancestral mansion of Justin Powell, the man whose reputation she had saved from scandal-wagging tongues ten years before.
Justin Powell is a man who believes in paying his debts. When Evie comes to him for help, he has no choice but to surrender his home to the determined duke’s granddaughter. But Evie invades his heart as well, putting the daring double life he is living—and her own life—at risk.
As Evie strives to turn a simple wedding into the social event of the season, she finds herself falling beneath the spell of Justin’s amiable charms, not realizing they mask a dangerous secret. Justin vows to keep Evie safe, but who will protect him from the tantalizing peril of falling in love?
“Connie Brockway’s work brims with warmth, wit, sensuality and intelligence.”—Amanda Quick, New York Times bestselling author
“Romance with strength, wit, and intelligence. Connie Brockway delivers!” — Tami Hoag, New York Times bestselling author
“If it’s smart, sexy, and impossible to put down, it’s a book by Connie Brockway — Christina Dodd, New York Times bestselling author
“If you’re looking for passion, tenderness, wit, and warmth, you need look no further. Connie Brockway is simply the best.” — Teresa Medeiros, New York Times bestselling author
“Brockway’s lush, lyrical writing style is a perfect match for her vivid characters, beautiful atmospheric setting, and sensuous love scenes.” — Library Journal
“Connie Brockway’s work belongs on every reader’s shelf!”—Romantic Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in Chelsea, England, during the late Victorian era, this brisk and refreshingly droll tale sets cheeky Evelyn Cummings Whyte on a collision course with the scruffy but invariably handsome Justin Powell. When 15-year-old Evelyn interrupts what she takes to be a tryst between Justin and a prominent diplomat's wife, she exacts a note of debt from the ruffled 23-year-old in return for her silence. Ten years later, Evie, who is filling in for her aunt as a society wedding planner, comes calling with her note. She needs Justin's familial estate for the wedding of the season. He agrees reluctantly, complaining it will interfere with his bird-watching he's an ornithologist on the tail of the elusive Bubo Formosa Plorimus (Most Beautiful Owl) but in truth, the nuptials will provide an excellent cover for his espionage activities. Far from the frivolous ladies' man Evie thinks he is, Justin is really a spy, but his latest mission to hide a "diabolical machine" being shipped to him by his handler may put them both in danger. Readers are left to wonder what the machine is for much of the tale, and in the end, it's not what we're led to believe. A handful of other surprises keep the narrative lively, and Brockway's buoyant characters and lilting writing style sweep the reader along to a heady and hilarious denouement.
