A Convenient Fiction
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"[Matthews'] books are classics and remind me of Georgette Heyer and Mary Balogh...simply wonderful." -Jane Porter, New York Times bestselling author
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
She Needed a Husband…
It's been three years since Laura Hayes's father died, leaving her and her invalid brother to subsist on the income from the family's failing perfume business. But time is swiftly running out. What she needs is a husband, and fast. A noble gentleman who can rescue them all from penury. When a mysterious stranger arrives in the village, he seems a perfect candidate. But Alex Archer is no hero. In fact, he just might be the opposite.
He Wanted a Fortune…
Alex has no tolerance for romantic sentiment. He's returned to England for one reason only: to find a wealthy wife. A country-bred heiress in Surrey seems the perfect target. But somewhere between the village railway station and the manor house his mercenary plan begins to unravel. And it's all the fault of Laura Hayes—a lady as unsuitable as she is enchanting.
From the beaches of Margate to the lavender fields of Provence, a grudging friendship slowly blossoms into something more. But when scandal threatens, can a man who has spent his entire life playing the villain, finally become a hero? Or will the lure of easy riches once again outweigh the demands of his heart?
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His redemption
What a woman to do when dire circumstances force her into a wall, and the man who could rescue her wants to have nothing to do with her.
There is nothing I like better than the redemption of a man’s way, all in the name of Love.
Having not read the two previous installments, I do understand Alex was described as the vilain of the group of four orphans. The one who took off and never looked back.
Still he carries his past transgressions like a cross, so ashamed by what he sees as his sins, he never stopped running away.
For his first encounter with Laura, he fights his attraction to her, chemistry he senses either way.
She awaken feelings he has long ago bury and refuses to experience again as it has carved deep scars last time he felt the same.
Laura is holding her household with her fortitude, but now she struggles to make ends meet.
She is kind and caring but also hardheaded and not easy to relinquish her control.
She tries to find a way to restaure her family business but her plans are dwarfed by her solicitor and as a woman she hold little to no power.
As for Alex, her relationship with him unsettles her, but still, she is drawn to him even knowing he has come with a specific goal and hide a great deal of things.
Alex might be introduced as the wicked guy but George and Henriette, Laura’s childhood friends are no flawless angels, they bear their own sins.
Mrs Mimi Matthews has manufactured an arresting tale of vanquishing one past’s guilt to let it go for the hope of a future. This tremendous story with vibrant and spirited characters had me turning the pages with bliss, eager to see the plot unfold and Alex and Laura find their way to one another. Their romance was so sensual, by small touches with bare hands, a hint of skin revealed, a scent lingering, Mrs Matthews expressed voluptuously their growing sentiments. Scorching gaze does enough a steamy scene to convey the magnitude of their love.
The one matter was to find where home was really, an act of property or in the heart of those you care for.
5 stars
I was granted through Netgalley by the publisher Perfectly Proper Press an advance copy, prior to it I have preordered my own.
Here is my true and unbiased opinion.