The Forgotten Marquess
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- 5,99 €
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For three long and lonely years, Tristan Trent, the Marquess of Hopkins, waited for his wife Elaina's return. Eyewitnesses insist no one could have survived the storm that swept her overboard, but Tristan refuses to give up hope—even when he is trapped into a betrothal he doesn't want and forced to declare Elaina dead.
Elaina Trent has no memories of her life before waking in Alderney surrounded by strangers, and three years of trying to recall an elusive history has left her life in limbo. Determined to have a future even though her past is gone, she accepts a marriage proposal and a promise for a new life. But when a man claiming to be her brother-in-law stumbles across her, Elaina has no choice except to end her engagement and return to a husband she no longer knows.
When Elaina and Tristan are finally reunited, she still cannot recall what they once shared. Can she begin anew with a gentleman she doesn't even know and hope that love grows once again, or will they remain strangers forever?
Avis d’utilisateurs
Reviving the old flame
How a man will get back his wife’s love when she does not know who he is...
At the beginning of the book I was assailed by a myriad of feelings, angst, sadness, anxiety, frustration, angst at Elaina for causing so much pain, sadness for Tristan and what he went through, anxiety for will they find each other in time, frustration at everyone around her tiptoeing like walking on eggs and many much more sentiments.
The basis of the plot brought to my mind a book I read not so long ago, both husbands remarried but when in Mrs Bree Wolf, the second bride was a victim, and I felt sorry for her, here I confess I didn’t even pitied her, she was the artisan of her own doom until I understood she was too a casualty of Society’s expectations.
At first, I thought the challenge would come from the repudiated wife’s side.
But how wrong I was, it is a story with no vilain, only a man who tries to win back the wife who has forgotten him. Thus begins Tristan’s wooing of his returned wife.
It was a beautiful tale of love from all sides, and the strength of the mind.
Tristan is a wonderful man, he subjects himself to begin all over again his courtship because he can’t imagine a life without Elaina being part of it. At time, it was fun but also sad and painful when he fears she might lost to him.
Elaine has a long way ahead as she learns who she has been, the life she has lived prior to her disappearance, but also who is the man she married, how she came to care for him.
I immersed in their story, sucked by this dramatic tale where the memory or its lack hold back a love to flourish, where good intentions can do more harm than perhaps being blunt.
As my first read by Mrs Jane Charles I was gladly surprised by her talent to bring to life flawed characters, they acted like normal peoples, they make mistake, they ask for forgiveness, I felt like i was in the same room with them, a spectator of a fragment of their life unfolding in front of me.
5 stars
I was granted by the author an advance copy, I already preordered my own.
Here is my true and unbiased opinion.