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Forgotten & Remembered: The Duke's Late Wife

Love's Second Chance Series: Tales of Lords & Ladies, Book 1

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Forgotten & Remembered: The Duke's Late Wife

By: Bree Wolf
Narrated by: Anna Parker-Naples
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A grieving widower. A strong lady. And a little girl who needs them both.

After losing his wife in an accident, Graham Astor, Duke of Kensington, decides that love is not worth the risk of having his heart broken all over again. Even his little daughter he keeps at a distance, afraid to hurt her with the darkness that now lives in his heart. Since he is unable to be the father she deserves, he vows to find her a mother who will heal her little heart.

At a garden party, Graham spots a young woman with a shy smile tending lovingly to her little cousins...and he knows his duty.

As the black sheep of her family, Rosabel Lander has no illusions about love. After her parents' deaths, her aunt and uncle reluctantly took her in, demanding nothing short of complete obedience. Unable to live down her past, Rosabel only wishes for one thing: freedom.

However, before she dares to take the first step toward an independent future, a cold-hearted stranger asks for her hand in marriage...and as the obedient niece, Rosabel cannot refuse.

Will Rosabel find love after all? Or will the memory of Graham's late wife keep them both from finding happiness?

This Beauty and the Beast story by a USA Today best-selling author proves that the past can never be forgotten, but its regrets can be forgiven.

©2015 Sabrina Wolf (P)2017 Tantor Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance Romantic Suspense Marriage Suspense Heartfelt

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I found the book so long and nearly gave up many times. but the storyline was good hence my rating.

A well performed interesting photo

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So there’s a lot of drama in this book due to the above mentioned MMC. Aside from that it’s a really cute love story and when the main characters actually start talking and opening up it’s gorgeous. Some supporting characters and antagonists just disappear after a while and I think I’d liked a bit more resolve for some of them but over all a good story. The narrator does a great job at distinguishing characters and I love the dialect that even if it isn’t straight up “up ton British” brings warmth and character to the reading.

Sweet but with a very stubborn MMC

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Some reviewers described Graham as too infuriating and horrible and Rosabel too much of a wilting flower. Frankly, I have to disagree. I mean, Graham was so broken and constrantly misstepping, yes, he was infuriating. And Rosabel's low self-esteem presented her with frequent challenges in isserting herself...Yes she was equally frustrating. But really, woman don't have to be spitfires to be interesting or complex. I never disliked either character, their flaws made them and the contentiousness of their relationship so great. It is a classic HR trope: the sad widower troubling over moving on with his new young wife, which he married out of convenience. But where HR Heroes are usually an alpha male, Graham struggled rather uniquely with not believing himself worthy or capable ot being loved. He is reserved and shy and also struggling with self-esteem. Rosabel deals with the same thing. And where HR heroines are so often independent and fiery, Rosabel was gentle and shy and dutiful. Additionally, these things made our main characters feel real. I liked that Rosabel behaved in a way that I think many women would have in the past when they entered arranged marriages. To me, this was what made this story unique.

I thought Wolf wrote very well, as she presented us with characters mired by human imperfection, making mistakes and not always live up to the potential we think they have... She plots out an arc and sticks to it. Where women were agentless and secondary to the men in their life, I thought Wolf depicted Rosabel superbly. The H/h have a very hard battle to wage within themselves and with eachtoher, and by the end succeed. That is good writing to me, not lazy and not unwilling to paint her mains in unfriendly lights. While this book is incredibly emotionally fraught and for a goodly portion of the novel we don't see our couple together but living apart, it was crafted in a way so that, still, they get to know eachother through letters or the word of friends (Edmond and Helen). And while we have to watch Rosabel and Georgiana left behind again and again.... then again, and again, and again.....I think Wolf does this intentionally because when the peak finally comes (twice, I think) I was so wound up and sad I just ended up crying. I love it when a writer can do that to me. Then when they finally start to understand eachother in truth, it is so much the sweeter.

Ugh, I just adored this. It's not an easy listen, as Rosabel starts being genuinely terrified of her husband and Graham starts out in crippling despair and having hallucinations about his dead wife.. somehow they end up in a true, pure love together. It isn't sudden and listeners are carefully and clearly lead to the happy end. Wish the epilogue had been an hour long.

If you are like me and you like that a lack of external conflict, or outlandishness. Or if you don't always want to read a book that requires complete suspension of disbelief... Listen to this. This story very much reflected, to me, an exploration of real-life situations in the past.

Anna Parker-Naples is definitely not my favourite narrator because her male voices really blow, but she does a good job here I think.


Highly recommend this one.

Love me an emotionally devastating romance novel

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Anna Parker-Naples is a good narrator. Love the plot (marriage of convenience). The plot was meaty (Dukes late wife) And how the couple got their happily ever after. Would like to continue reading all the books in this series.

Thank You Bree Wolf

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very little story he said she said he felt she felt! historic discrepancies no nanny, no dressmaker arrives without luggage to stay with a prince

Takes a long time to get to the end!!

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I struggled somewhat in this review. On one hand, I adored the heroine, even if she was a bit of a wilting flower at times, and the hero was appropriately noble and handsome, but I wanted to take a switch to his ass (and not in a fun way). The story was torturous and full of angst, a bit too much if you ask me, but they got there in the end, so I have given in a 4/5 all in all.

Forgotten & Remembered

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A pleasant read well written and performed .
Heart warming story line although I kept expecting the villain to appear again.

Easy listening for a summers day

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so trudgingly boring that I could not go on to find how the heroine gains her happiness.

monotony of sound.

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Struggled to finish, irritating story and narration. Writing was also over sentimental and needed editing.

weak heroine overdramatic narration

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