The Bride and the Beast by Teresa Medeiros

But the Julian who has returned to London is not the vampire she remembers. Portia quickly discovers that Julian’s seductive and forbidden kiss can still make her crave the night…Īnd his touch. He returns five years later to find the enchanting young girl he left behind grown into a bewitching woman with a woman’s heart…Īnd a woman’s desires. Once, as a girl of seventeen, beautiful, headstrong Portia Cabot saved the cursed life of the dashing vampire Julian Kane who marked her forever, then left to go in search of his soul. So why does he still want her so badly for himself? Stealing his enemy s bride was simple, but can he claim her innocence without losing his heart? But he cannot allow either one of them to forget he is her enemy and she his pawn in the deadly Highland feud between the clans. Jamie expects Emma to be some milksop English miss, not a fiery, defiant beauty whose irresistible charms will tempt him at every turn. Though he is Hepburn s sworn enemy, Emma s mysterious captor is everything her bridegroom is not handsome, virile, dangerous…Īnd a perilous temptation for her yearning heart. This was a light, fluffy read.Passion sparks in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros’s irresistibly tempting new romance after a sexy Highlander kidnaps his rival s spirited English bride Emmaline Marlowe is about to wed the extremely powerful laird of the Hepburn clan to save her father from debtor s prison when ruffian Jamie Sinclair bursts into the abbey on a magnificent black horse and abducts her in one strong swoop. And does the Dragon return her feelings? Much of this novel plays out in the castle ruins, where historical events are few and far between, though later in the novel the reader is given a better sense of the situation between England and Scotland. After lashing out at her imprisonment in highly luxurious quarters, Gwendolyn begins to feel more than anger at the Dragon. The Dragon, if dragon he be, is able to assume human form. However, this doesn’t make her any more amenable to being a sacrifice. She is well-read and very intelligent, and doesn’t quite believe in dragons. The townswomen seem a rather lusty lot, and there is only one virgin available, our heroine Gwendolyn. One night they seek to placate the Dragon by offering it a sacrificial offering–a virgin. Their ruined castle is now inhabited by a Dragon, which makes periodic demands upon the village. Fifteen years earlier someone in the village betrayed the local Laird and his young heir to the English for a thousand pounds in gold. This novel takes place in the superstitious village of Ballybliss, Scotland in 1761. If you are looking for a romantic story, it may. If you are looking for a book well grounded in its time and place, full of interesting historical events and details, this book will not satisfy you.

The Bride and the Beast by Teresa Medeiros