By: Deborah Martin
Genres: Romance Historical
Posted: August 21, 2016
Rhys Vaughan is a Welsh radical and the son of a disgraced squire and Juliana is a young English lady and the daughter of the man who stole Rhys's family estate. Juliana and Rhys have an instant attraction, fall in love and elope. However, on their wedding night, her brother finds them and has Rhys impressed in navy and lies to Juliana and manipulates her to keep her marriage secret. The poor Juliana and Rhys are forced to spend the next six years apart, each believing that the worst.
Now Rhys returns after six years of vengeance on his mind and he blames Juliana for what was done to him. Rhys's anger and his determination to believe the worst of Juliana makes it difficult for her to him her love.
Juliana has believed that Rhys is dead and finally she agrees to marry someone else but Rhys shows up in her engagement party and refuses an annulment, instead forcing Julianna to return to him.
There was also a secondary romance featuring Julianna's maid and Rhys's friend. Their love story was also quite wonderful and makes the plot more interesting.
STORMSWEPT is a revised version of the previously published book by Sabrina Jeffries she had written as Deborah Martin. This is the story of deceptions, betrayal, anger and passion. The characters as absolutely amazing! I loved Juliana although I was annoyed with Rhys at times due to his stubbornness on not wanting to see through Juliana's perspective. Still I loved this book and couldn't put it down. Thank you Sabrina Jeffries for writing another amazing book!
Book Summary
New York Times bestseller Sabrina Jeffries reignites a daring love affair in this intriguing tale of desire and deception—originally written as Deborah Martin and newly revised for today’s audience.
The first wedding night that Lady Juliana St. Albans spent
with the dark and daring Rhys Vaughan was intoxicating, the
heady culmination of her new husband’s driving hunger and
her own awakened sensuality. When he mysteriously
disappeared the next morning, she waited for him in hope and
desperation. And when he was finally proclaimed dead in a
shipwreck, she bitterly mourned the loss of her love.
The second wedding night that Juliana spent with Rhys
Vaughan was six years later, after he returned to claim her
just as she was about to wed another. This Rhys was
different—bolder, harder, and convinced that she’d betrayed
him. Only their blazing passion remains from their years
apart. But is it enough to light their way through the maze
of mystery, menace, and mistrust—to the love they once
shared and would have to find again?
by: Deborah Martin
Pocket Books
July 1, 2016
On Sale: June 28, 2016
Featuring: Juliana St. Albans; Rhys Vaughan
384 pages
ISBN: 1451665547
EAN: 9781451665543
Kindle: B0176M1BCU
Paperback / e-Book