Wayward Bride [Hardcover]

Daphne Clair (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Mills & Boon (July 14, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263121267
• ISBN-13: 978-0263121261
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,052,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Psychological Read, April 14, 2010

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seton (Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wayward Bride (Harlequin Presents, No 1271) (Paperback)

I reread this recently since I was in a mood for a dark read. This is more of a psychological drama than a romance. The heroine is in this is very damaged, perhaps too damaged for the HEA to be very believable.

The book starts and ends with the hero's POV. He is an up-and-coming lawyer and meets the boss's 21 year old daughter, with no unsubtle push from the boss. The heroine comes across as a pampered, heartless man-eater and the hero is determined not to be one of her victims. Like so many of the young men that hang around her. He takes an aloof, slightly condescending attitude towards her but is drawn to her all the same because he also senses that she has been very hurt.

They start dating and eventually marry. A terrible event happens and her past comes out because of it. The hero realizes the heroine is not the empty-headed party girl that he sometimes treat her as. He does what he can to help her heal, even if it means that she leaves him. I always tear up at the scene where he thinks she has left him for another man and receives a postcard from her. He holds the postcard in his hands and tells her to "be happy".

I'm a longtime Daphne Clair fan. A lot of her books from this period have a certain moodiness that I like. Last year, she returned to the Presents line after a five year absence and I find her more recent books a lot more bland in comparison.