Autumn Means Marriage... and Murder
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Publisher Description
It's a bad omen to find a corpse on the eve of a wedding… unless it was fate's plan all along.
Autumn has arrived in England and so has Mary Tomlinson's long-awaited wedding day to her handsome former Bow Street inspector. Though her newfound happiness frightens her—she's had ill-fortune with men in the past—she's looking forward to what her future will bring, for assisting in solving crimes is quite invigorating, especially when mixing business with heady trysts of pleasure.
After retiring from his position at Whitehall, on the eve of Inspector Gabriel Bright's wedding to the intriguing Mary, he attends the opera with her for no other reason than to treat her to her favorite play. Despite their obstacle-strewn path to romance, he's anticipating wedding—and bedding—the attractive woman and being a husband again as well as making their oftentimes hotly passionate relationship legitimate.
Yet when they stumble over a dead body in a shadowy corridor at the opera house, the course of those plans is thrown into jeopardy, for the dead woman had been a paramour of her former husband's. As tension brews between Mary and Bright, their investigation takes them to Brighton and plunges them into a secret pleasure spa. The distractions prove harrowing and dangerous to them both, and unless they solve the case, there will be nothing left of the relationship to warrant a union.
Customer Reviews
exciting and steamy
First of all, I love these two characters. Both have been badly burned in their first marriages, and terrified as they are, they are willing to try again. Inspector Gabriel Bright is a sigh-worthy former Bow Street detective in his forties. He is intelligent, honorable and totally besotted with Mary. She is a smart, strong, capable widow who has had her share of heartache and disappointment. Together they make a formidable team. They are finally going to take the plunge, and on the night before their wedding they stumble across a dead body. And if that wasn’t bad enough, it was the body of Mary’s deceased husband’s former mistress. Tensions rise, Mary’s past haunts her, and now there is a case to solve. Their wedding day becomes one of interviews and chasing down leads. Eventually they end up in a pleasure spa in Brighton where things really get heated. Add a deranged killer and a deadly fire, and your heart will be beating right out of your chest. Meanwhile Cassandra, the former street rat whom Gabriel and Mary adopted, was wrestling with her new place in the world, and contemplating what constitutes a family. This story is full of both emotional and physical passion. The attraction between Gabriel and Mary simply vibrates off the page, and their love making is often desperate, hot and creative. Nobody writes steamy scenes like this author. They are jealousy inducing. This is a story packed with action, strong emotions, philosophical musings, tender moments, steamy encounters and excitement. Yet in the end, it is the creation and love of their family that brings them the most joy.
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