Honor Bound [Kindle Edition]

Brenda Novak (Author)

Book Description

To some men honor is just a word….

Jeannette Boucher, a young French beauty from a family left penniless by the revolution, must marry against her will to save them all from ruin. But almost immediately after the vows are spoken, she learns that her old English husband is impotent—and in his desire for an heir, he plans to compromise her in the worst way.

Determined to escape such a fate, she stows away on one of His Majesty’s frigates. But a woman alone is in constant danger.

To Lieutenant Treynor, honor means everything….

Born a bastard to a wayward marquise, Lieutenant Crawford Treynor was given to a poor farmer to raise and was maltreated until he ran away to join the Royal Navy. Treynor is determined to prove he’s as good as any other man and rise to captain his own frigate. But once he finds Jeannette aboard The Tempest he must decide whether to return her to the man he knows would abuse her—or risk everything, even his life, to keep her safe.

NOTE: THIS STORY WAS PREVIOUSLY TITLED THE BASTARD

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak’s career as a bestselling author—she caught her day-care provider drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep all day. That was when Brenda decided she needed to quit her job as a loan officer and help make a living from home. “When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book,” Brenda says. But she sold that book, and the rest is history. Her novels have made the New York Times, USA Today and Borders/Waldenbooks bestseller lists and won many awards, including two Rita nominations, the Book Buyer’s Best, the Book Seller’s Best and the National Reader’s Choice Award. Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are proud parents of five children—three girls and two boys. When she’s not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually working on her annual fund-raiser for diabetes research—an online auction held on her Web site (www.brendanovak.com) every May. Brenda has raised over $1 million to date.

Product Details

• File Size: 501 KB
• Print Length: 374 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0615566413
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005Z4ZX94
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,895 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Not great, but not bad either December 27, 2011

By Misfit TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

The family virtually penniless after fleeing the French Revolution, Jeannette Boucher is married off to an older baron who wants an heir at any price - and since he's impotent he plans to *farm* Jeannette out to his friends to get the job done. Jeannette gets wind of the odious plot and flees into the dark and stormy night, poorly clad and with no funds and plans to make her way from Plymouth to London and take refuge with her English cousin who brokered the marriage in the first place (!!). She does make it to Plymouth, has a few unusual *adventures* and eventually steals a man's clothing and gets a gig on one of His Majesty's frigates with a little help from Lieutenant Crawford Treynor, bastard by birth (hence the title).

It doesn't take long for Jeannette to realize she's not going to pull off her little disguise for two days on a ship full of men, nor does it take long for Treynor to realize he should have looked a bit closer at the *lad*. Nor does it take long before both are in immediate lust I might add...

While not a bad book by any means, some of the things that happen here really stretch credulity at times (can't give examples without spoiling, but puhleeze a newborn infant and its mother survived THAT?). And then there is Jeannette's seriously bad habit of doing whatever the heck she wants to do no matter what risks she's putting Treynor in by disobeying him (I so wanted to strangle her a few times). It was a quick easy read, it was a free download and I'm not sorry I read it, but it doesn't win any prizes for me in the historical romance department either. Sex wise there is lots of heavy kissing, but if you're expecting lots of horizontal mumbo jumbo I'd keep looking.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars good book January 10, 2012

By AmyLee

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

If you're looking for a good romance movie without all the sex, then this is a good read. It has a lot to offer. I enjoyed reading it.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Something Different from Novak November 2, 2011

By Boyd's Reviews

Format:Kindle Edition

Brenda Novak brings the same attention to detail in "The Bastard" as she does in her romantic suspense stories. I enjoy this historical time period, so it was a treat to read this post-French Revolution story. Treynor is a lusty hero who's pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become an officer in the British Navy and Jeannette's a clever heroine escaping a bad marriage.

Delightful historical romance from one of my favorite authors, a must-read Novak novel!

More About the Author

Brenda Novak Bio

It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak's career as a bestselling author--she caught her day-care provider drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep all day. That was when Brenda decided she needed to quit her job as a loan officer and help make a living from home.

"When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book," Brenda says. But she sold that book, and the rest is history. Her novels have made the New York Times, USA Today and Borders/Waldenbooks bestseller lists and won many awards, including three Rita nominations, the Book Buyer's Best, the Book Seller's Best and the National Reader's Choice Award.

Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are proud parents of five children--three girls and two boys. When she's not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually working on her annual fund-raiser for diabetes research--an online auction held on her Web site (www.brendanovak.com) every May. Brenda has raised over $1.6 million to date.