The Wedding Deception (Zebra Historical Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Adrienne Basso (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 7, 2005 | Series: Zebra Historical Romance

Marriages come in all shapes and sizes, particularly marriages of convenience. Take Claire Barrington's situation: she needed protection from the advances of a local squire, while her dashing new husband Jay needed a wife to shield him from busybody matchmakers. It's a perfect plan...until it goes perfectly awry. For when Claire makes an unexpected visit to her husband's London home, the man she meets is not the man she married - although the brooding look-alike is just as attractive, if not more so...A stunned Jasper Barrington greets his "wife" and has no idea who she is. Her timing couldn't be worse: he is about to announce his engagement to another, yet Claire has documents to prove their union is legal. Then the truth dawns: it was his twin brother, Jason, who married the girl, using his name. And Jasper now has a wife, a fiance, and the devil of a problem. For the unwittingly seductive Claire is proving more than a disruption to his carefully-laid plans - she's quickly becoming a wholly pleasurable distraction...

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"The sensuously detailed love scenes, undercurrent of danger and polished writing fuel Basso's latest historical Regency, which will draw fans of Amanda Quick and Nicole Jordan."

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Zebra Books; Regular Print/Single Titl edition (June 7, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821776258
• ISBN-13: 978-0821776254
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #750,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Explicit details, June 19, 2006

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Lady of leisure (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wedding Deception (Zebra Historical Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

In this story, Claire our heroine meets a man who is visiting her county and develops a great friendship with him, he sees that she is in danger because the town squire as set his eyes on her and is determined to have her by all cost, so Jay offers Claire the protection of his name.After they marry He tells her he is going on a journey but warns her never to visit his home without letting him know first.

Due to some unseen circumstances, she is forced to go to "Jay's" manor but what to her horror she finds that the man that looks so much like her Jay doesn't seem to be Jay and is vehemently denying ever being married to her.

It turns out that she did marry Jay,(the mischievous twin) but "J" signed his identical twin brother's name Jasper on the marriage certificate.

Jasper cannot turn this woman away, but he is already bethroted to be married to someone else. He is determined to see if this union his brother made on his behalf is legal in the meantime what his is to do with his "wife"

The plot is simple enough, but in a tragic twist the other woman who Jasper was engaged to got caught up with the evil Village Squire.....

All in all it was a very enjoyable read, some parts were a little to dark for my taste but fortunately it doesn't take too much away from the love story to ruin it.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but not light and fluffy., January 9, 2006

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N. Mytels (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wedding Deception (Zebra Historical Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

To avoid the advances of a villainous local squire, Miss Claire Barrington enters into a marriage of convenience. The groom, however, signs his twin brother Jasper's name to the marriage documents. As Claire and Jasper sort out the legalities of their situation and their feelings for one another, the evil squire and other malicious characters plot against them.

There is a rape scene in this book. And the rapist doesn't die a horrible, excruciating death at the end. I think the author needs to rewrite that. Or maybe editors will keep rape scenes out of style and leave them out of romances all together, please.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars My most hated book so far for 2009, February 22, 2009

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This review is from: The Wedding Deception (Zebra Historical Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Adrienne Basso, was fast becoming my favorite author until this book. It was riddled with a plot that was so predictable and worse of all bad. She took two women who were abused by their father and turn them into women to be hated. She showed no compassion towards her characters and their pain. This book has not even been donated to goodwill but has been thrown away where it belongs in the garbage