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Rose was finally moving on, . . but then her husband interrupted her wedding

Rose had a troubled childhood with an absent father and a sick younger sister.
Disillusioned with love, she agrees to marry a cold and unfeeling Duke in hopes to have children and live her life with some independence.
The problem is her husband, that she believed dead, shows up at the ceremony, causes a great commotion, and she does not know how to feel about it.

Thomas expected to be received with happiness and love but was greeted with shock and silence by a wife that was about to marry someone else.
After all the traumas he had faced in the last four years, that blow was very hard to take.

Two people who once loved each other had to acknowledge they have changed and find out if their sentiments still held true after those changes.

It is a great story, the characters are complex and well developed, and the relationship is solid.
There is a background murder plot that I could have done without, but it did not damage the romance.

Great read! Looking forward to the next book in the series,

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This is a nice read,
Nothing serious, but it was a good way to spend few hours of your time, reading.

However, this can be a better read if the author give more depth into this story, especially with a hero with a background like that.


But, probably will end up as an angsty story, who knows
And it wont be a nice and sweet read anymore.



I just spent the most fabulous weekend with this book and the wonderful characters that had me sighing and smiling throughout this story, Anne Gracie your stories rock they have everything that a romance reader wants in a story they are moving there are smiles and so much emotion from characters that become friends.
Make yourself comfortable for this one because you are not going to want to put it down.


Lady Rose Rutherford is marrying a Duke, she is finally going to settle down and become a good Duchess, and she does not want love, a marriage of convenience is what she wants, but when the wedding of the season becomes the scandal of the season because some supposedly long lost husband arrives in rags to stop the wedding, lives are turned upside down.
Rose is stunned when the man she fell in love with and married secretly four years ago and she thought was dead arrives.


Thomas Beresford married the woman he loved four years ago before leaving with the navy, he does not return and is listed as dead, but what happens to him has changed him forever, during his incarceration he never stopped thinking about Rose, dreaming of her kept him going and doing what he could to get home, and now he is here stopping her wedding to a Duke no less, but can he be the man he once was for his strong and caring Rose.


I am loving this series and Rose and Thomass story is awesome and so grand, to see these young lovers after all that they had been through bring that love that had never been forgotten back strong and more beautiful than before had me turning the pages.
The descriptions of what Thomas had been through was heartwrenching but

his love for Rose kept him going and their reuniting was not always easy thanks to Roses brother Cal he did try to put a spanner in the works but Rose the ever strong woman that she was knew how much love she has for Thomas.
Truly I loved this story from start to finish there are laughs and smiles and sighs along the way, MS Gracie never disappoints me and I am really looking forward to Georges story.
Thank you for another keeper, truly dont miss this story it is a must read,
Anne Gracie writes wonderful historical romances, I started this book without having read the firstand it read well as a standalone,

Rose secretly married Thomasyears ago while visiting her aunt, Before she could explain to her family about her new circumstances, she read in the newspaper about Thomas's ship going down with no survivors.
Grieving his death, she decided to keep her marriage a secret,years later, she decides to marry for convenience and it's during her wedding that Thomas storms the church to put a stop to the wedding.


I enjoyed watching Rose and Thomas negotiate their new relationship, They were young when they married, but are still very much in love, I got bored with Thomas's constant hot/cold attitude and there was a lot of pushing away.
Thank goodness that Rose knew her own mind and would not let him push her away, Thomas had a lot of betrayals to deal with and had a very difficultyears away, so he had to heal from his brokenness and learn to love Rose and himself again.


I'm going to try to find the other books in the series and hope my library has copies.


Safety mild OM drama as h was about to marry again, but she believed the H was dead and was not in love with the OM.
h was a virgin before meeting the H but they slept together before their wedding, No cheating. Both celibate during their separation, Mention of slavery, miscarriage. Honestly I felt this one got worse and worse and I do not know why I did not dnf.


Rose is about to marry a Duke, but then he long lost hubbie shows up.
The one she never told anyone about, the one she married at,

First the drama is about her family not wanting him around,

Then when there is happiness, the drama changes to this other thing, That just felt weird.

I honestly lost interest and it felt like a chore, I know I know, DNF! But I need to dnf audio in the first hour, when I am half way through I push on which I know realise is a mistake.


Very disappointed

Anne Gracie's Regency novels are my perfect holiday reading and Marry in Secret the latest in her Marriage of Convenience series doesn't disappoint.
The plot is really satisfying and I loved the two main characters, Rose and Thomas, who are reunited in the most dramatic way.
Anne Gracie is especially good at dialogue and her sense of humour sparkles in all of her Regency novels The Perfect Rake is delicious!.
She's great at secondary characters and especially the older members of the Ton, I giggle my way through the scenes with Aunt Dottie and her "gels", Marry in Secret also has a fascinating historical element which Anne Gracie explains in an intriguing Author's Note.
I'd never heard of William Willshire but her use of his story in this novel added an extra pinch of spice to a very entertaining book.
I can't wait to read Anne Gracie's next book in the series because it will be George's story and I'm already in love with her grumpy, coldeyed duke! We meet up with Rose when shes about to be married to a duke, a marriage of convenience, not a lovematch, but as you gather from the book description thats not going to happen.
Rose married four years ago, but thought her husband died at sea while taking her heart with him.


I really enjoyed Marry in Secret, Rose had a heart of gold and was patient and supportive of Thomas.
He went through a harrowing experience, something I didnt really know happened to seamen at the time, but the authors note explains Thomass experience was based on a reallife account and its heartbreaking.
It definitely took more time to unravel all of Thomas situation and feelings, but I never doubted that he loved Rose, and she didnt either.
Theres a mystery about Thomas family and some danger that comes from it, adding a bit more excitement that kept me turning those pages to get to the bottom of things.


Following Rose and Thomas as they sort out the past, get to know each other and savor their reunion was touching, emotional and a pleasure! This is my first Anne Gracie novel, but it wont be my last! I think Roses cousin Georgiana is up next and I cant wait!

A copy was kindly provided by Berkley in exchange for an honest review.
ARC from Netgalley

I enjoyed Gracie'snd book in the "Marriage of Convenience" series, and was looking forward to reading the story of elder sister Rose's romance.
But I found myself more disappointed than overjoyed by this latest installment, The book opens with Rose at the altar, about to marry a duke whom she's chosen because he, like she, doesn't want to marry for love.
But when the wedding is interrupted by an unkempt but wellspoken man, it turns out that Rose had once, and secretly, married for love, when she was an adolescent.
Rose hadn't told anyone in her family about the secret wedding at the time, her beloved sister Lily was ill with a dangerous case of the mumps, her favorite brother was away at war, and her father and eldest brother would only have had the marriage annulled, since she was underage and married without permission.
And since her husband was soon reported dead at sea, she had no reason to tell anyone later.


Rose's reaction to the sudden reappearance of Thomas Beresford he was, she waswhen they married is unexpected rather than embrace him with joy after his fouryear absence, as Thomas had imagined, she's upset and standoffish, surrounded by female relatives who want to protect her from this apparent interloper.
At first, Thomas insists Rose is his no matter what her male relatives say, But, worried that perhaps Rose no longer wants him, and that he is no longer worthy of her, he has a sudden change of heart and abruptly agrees to her family's wishes for an annulment.
As soon as he does, however, Rose decides she wants to abide by her marriage vows, even though the engaging, open man she married is far from the abrupt, taciturn nearstranger who faces her now.


Both Rose and Thomas have experienced trauma in the four years since they've been apart, but while Rose confides her difficulties and hurts to Thomas, he keeps the details of his hidden, although it is revealed fairly early on in the story that he was captured by Barbary pirates and sold as a slave.
The two have a lot of sex, but beyond that there isn't much to show them getting to know one another again, or any events that bring them emotionally closer.
Rose is cheerful, Thomas is taciturn, the story is amused by all the "female" bustling about decorating their new house and preparing for the ball announcing Thomas's return to society.
And then there's some melodrama about someone trying to kill Thomas, . .

Perhaps because I'm in the midst of doing research about the British in West Africa during the Regency period, reading a lot about British involvement in the African slave trade, I found myself frustrated by the awkward combination here of lighthearted narrative cute dog, men laughing at the way their women bulldoze over their wishes, etc with the backstory of Thomas's enslavement.


It made me wonder: how many historical romances have featured Europeans coming back from being enslaved by Barbary pirates, vs.
those that have featured Englishmen who were actively involved in the African slave trade even as villains So many real Brits were involved in the latter, even members Brits of the aristocracymembers of the House of Lords received compensation from the West India Slave Compensation Commission in, as didof theMPs in the House of Commons.
And many newly wealthy members of society had made their money from their involvement in slavery or its allied trades see sitelink bbc. co. uk/programmes/b . In contrast, while thousands of Europeans were enslaved by the Barbary pirates, most were from southern Europe, which suggests that, at least during the Regency period, the number of Brits who benefited from the Atlantic slave trade was far higher than those who were the victims of the Northern African slave trade.


Though it was surely not the intention of Gracie or other white authors of historical romance to minimize the severity of the Atlantic slave trade, those who feature protagonists who experienced enslavement at the hands of the Ottomans and ignore the participation of Europeans in the Atlantic slave trade can inadvertently suggest that Europeans were the ones most harmed by enslavement during the English Regency period, and contribute to unthinkingly to white supremacist rhetoric and discourse.
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