The Bride Takes a Groom

The Penhallow Dynasty, Book 3

By: Lisa Berne

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Lisa Berne’s Penhallow Dynasty continues with a pair of star-crossed childhood friends who meet again years later - and find love where they least expect it....

Katherine Brooke may be a fabulously wealthy heiress, but she’s trapped, a pawn in her parents’ ruthless game to marry her into the nobility. Then Captain Hugo Penhallow - so charming, as handsome as a Greek god - comes into her life once more, and suddenly she sees a chance to be free.

As a Penhallow, his is one of the highest names in the land, but still his family is facing ruin. So Katherine boldly proposes an exchange: his name for her money. But only if Hugo understands it’s merely a practical arrangement and that she’s not surrendering herself entirely.

Back from eight years in America and determined to give his younger siblings a better life, Hugo agrees. He’s never fallen in love, so why not? Yet neither of them guesses that this marriage will become far, far more than they ever dreamed of....

©2018 Lisa Berne (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers

Meh!

There was no real basis for a relationship between the main couple. Katherine was such a drippy pill for most of the book that you wondered why Hugo put up with her at all! True, she makes a transformation at the end, but I lost interest and had to make myself finish it.

Couldn’t finish. Again,

I give up on about half of the books I buy, including this one. The “heroine” was rude, spoiled, stupid, ungrateful, and vapid. The hero was the world’s nicest guy and I was hoping he’d tell her to take a hike. No such luck and I quit with two hours left.