Tremaine’s True Love by Grace Burrowes
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Publisher & Release Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca, August 4,
2015
Time
and setting: Regency England
Genre:
Historical Regency Romance
Length:
416 pages
Heat
Level: 1 Scorching Hot Flame
Rating: 4 Gold Crowns
Book Description:
New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes introduces a brand new
gorgeous Regency Romance series featuring the Haddonfield ladies and their
loves.
He's had everything he could ever want...until now
Wealthy wool magnate Tremaine St. Michael is half French, half Scottish, and all business. He prowls the world in search of more profits, rarely settling in one place for long. When he meets practical, reserved Lady Nita Haddonfield, he sees an opportunity to mix business with pleasure by making the lady his own.
Wealthy wool magnate Tremaine St. Michael is half French, half Scottish, and all business. He prowls the world in search of more profits, rarely settling in one place for long. When he meets practical, reserved Lady Nita Haddonfield, he sees an opportunity to mix business with pleasure by making the lady his own.
Nita
Haddonfield has a meaningful life tending to others, though nobody is dedicated
to caring for Nita. She insists the limitations of marriage aren't for her,
then Tremaine St. Michael arrives-protective, passionate, and very, very
determined to win Nita's heart.
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Vikki’s
Musings
I have been a fan of Grace Burrowes since I discovered The
Heir several years ago. When I received an invitation from the publisher to
read and review Tremaine’s True Love via Net-Galley in exchange for an honest
review, I gladly accepted. This book is a great start on a new series. Of
course, this series includes characters from another series by Grace Burrowes,
as it is set in Nicholas, the Earl of Bellefonte’s home. Nicholas has his own
story in the Lonely Lords series.
Tremaine St. Michael is on a mission. He wants to purchase
Merino sheep from Bellefonte. What he didn’t count on was falling in love with the
earl’s charming, yet eccentric sister, Lady Nita. He immediately becomes
involved in one of Nita’s healing expeditions.
Lady Nita is a confirmed spinster and values her freedom
above all else. She is a gifted healer and is selfless in her devotion to
anyone who is ill, regardless of the danger to her personal health. When she
meets Tremaine, she is drawn to him right away, but is not interested in
forming a permanent connection with him.
Will Tremaine overcome her disdain for the institution of
marriage and win the heart of this fascinating, yet stubborn young woman, or
will her dedication to treating anyone who needs her drive them apart?
Family is an integral part of all of Ms. Burrowes books and
Tremaine’s True Love is indicative of that trend. The reader gets a glimpse of
the Haddenfields, a family who is the central focal point of the Lonely Lords
series. I enjoyed reading about Nicholas and his family again. Ms. Burrowes has
a great talent for writing stories with caring male leads and Tremaine St.
Michael definitely fits.
The romance between Tremaine and Nita is a slowly blossoming
flower and quite enjoyable. There is never any doubt of the affection the
couple have for each other, and I rooted for them from the start to the finish.
Lady Nita is a bit too nice for my tastes. While I
appreciated her dedication to helping the sick, she came across as too much of
a martyr. At times, she is quite heedless of her family’s concerns for her
safety. Although, I did find a certain charm about her character.
Tremaine’s character is a fairly uncomplicated man. He wants
those sheep and is willing to bargain for them until it becomes clear that by
acquiring them, he could alienate Lady Nita. I truly enjoyed his character a
great deal throughout the book.
As always with one of Ms. Burrowes stories I became enmeshed
with her characters. If you enjoy a book that showcases family love with a
delightful romance woven in, then you will enjoy Tremaine’s True Love. Happy
reading!
Excerpt:
Wealthy businessman Tremaine St.
Michael has concluded that marriage to Lady Nita Haddonfield would be a prudent
merger of complimentary interests for the mutual benefit and enjoyment of both
parties… or some such blather.
Tremaine rapped on Lady Nita’s door,
quietly, despite a light shining from beneath it. Somebody murmured something
which he took for permission to enter.
“Mr. St. Michael?”
Tremaine stepped into her ladyship’s
room, closed the door behind him and locked it, which brought the total of his
impossibly forward behaviors to several thousand.
“Your ladyship expected a sister, or a
maid with a pail of coal?”
“I wasn’t expecting you.”
Lady Nita sat near the hearth in a blue velvet dressing gown. The wool
stockings on her feet were thick enough to make a drover covetous. “Are you
unwell, Mr. St. Michael?”
“You are not pleased to see me.” Did
she think illness the only reason somebody would seek her out?
She set aside some pamphlet, a medical
treatise, no doubt. No vapid novels for Lady Nita.
“I was not expecting you, sir.”
“You were not expecting me to discuss
marriage with you earlier. I wasn’t expecting the topic to come up in a casual
fashion either. May I sit?”
She waved an elegant hand at the other
chair flanking the hearth. Tremaine settled in, trying to gather his thoughts
while the firelight turned Lady Nita’s braid into a rope of burnished gold.
“You are pretty.” Brilliant place to
start. The words had come out, heavily burred, something of an ongoing
revelation.
“I am tall and blond,” she retorted,
twitching the folds her of her robe. “I have the usual assortment of parts.
What did you come here to discuss?”
Lady Nita was right, in a sense. Her
beauty was not of the ballroom variety, but rather, an illumination of her
features by characteristics unseen. She fretted over new babies, cut up
potatoes like any crofter’s wife, and worried for her sisters. These attributes
interested Tremaine. Her madonna-with-a-secret smile, keen intellect, and
longing for laughter attracted him.
Even her medical pre-occupation, in its
place, had some utility as well.
“Will you marry me, my lady?”
More brilliance. Where had his wits
gone? George Haddonfield had graciously pointed out that Nita needed repose and
laughter, and Tremaine was offering her the hand of the most restless and
un-silly man in the realm.
The lady somehow contained her
incredulity, staring at her hands. “You want to discuss marriage?”
“I believe I did just open that topic.
Allow me to elaborate on my thesis: Lady Bernita Haddonfield, will you do me
the honor of becoming my wife? I think we would suit, and I can promise you
would know no want in my care.”
A proper swain would have been on his
damn bended knee, the lady’s hand in his. Lady Nita would probably laugh
herself to tears if Tremaine attempted that nonsense. Lady Nita picked up her
pamphlet, which Tremaine could now see was written in German.
“Why, Mr. St. Michael?”
“I beg your pardon?” Tremaine was about
to pitch the damned pamphlet in the fire, until he recalled that Nita
Haddonfield excelled at obscuring her stronger emotions.
“Why should you marry me, Tremaine St.
Michael? Why should I marry you? I’ve had other offers, you’ve made other
offers. You haven’t known me long enough to form an opinion of my character
beyond the superficial.”
This ability to take a situation apart,
into causes, effects, symptoms, and prognosis was part of the reason she was
successful as a healer. Tremaine applied the same tendencies to commercial
situations, so he didn’t dismiss her questions as coyness or manipulation.
She wasn’t rejecting him either. She
most assuredly was not rejecting him.
Message From the Author
What makes a man a gentleman?
For a romance writer, this question has to be answered in every book, because implicit in the term “hero” is something of the gentleman. Heroes need not be charming, handsome or wealthy, and they might not even be obviously heroic, at least at the start of the book, but they have to be worthy of our loyalty for the duration of an entire book.
In the True Gentlemen series, I took three men who’d wandered across my pages in previous stories—Tremaine St. Michael, Daniel Banks, and Willow Dorning—and found them each a happily ever after. Tremaine is a flinty business man, Daniel is poor and pious, Willow finds polite society an enormous trial and would far rather be with his dogs. These fellows were not obvious choices as romance heroes, but they each had something that tempted me to write stories for them.
When we met Tremaine in an earlier book (Gabriel: Lord of Regrets), Tremaine was convinced that he’d found a good candidate for the position of wife. He offered marriage, listing all the practical advantages to both parties, and he congratulated himself on how much sense his proposed union would make.
The lady turned him down flat, and as a gentleman is bound to do, he graciously ceded the field. He didn’t like it, he didn’t entirely understand how or what he’d lost, but he wished the happy couple well.
Daniel’s role in David: Lord of Honor was to charge to London with sermons at the ready in an attempt to restore his sister’s honor. The very man Daniel accused of wronging that sister had already set her back on the path to respectability.
Oops. But again, being a gentleman, Daniel wishes the couple every happiness, even if doing so costs him the future he’d envisioned for himself and his loved ones. Like Tremaine, he’s a gracious and even dignified loser.
Willow’s appearance in Worth: Lord of Reckoning is brief, but he too is determined to see a sister rescued from a possibly compromising position, and again, rescue is simply not on the heroine’s agenda.
In all three cases, the true gentleman acts in the best interests of those he loves and is responsible for, regardless of the inconvenience or cost to himself. Because Tremaine, Daniel, and Willow were honorable, I liked them. I trusted them, I wanted them to have the happiness they clearly already deserved.
In the Nicholas Haddonfield’s sisters—Nita, Kirsten, and Susannah—I found ladies willing to oblige my ambitions for these men. In each case, our hero has lessons yet to learn, and in each case, his inherent honor wins the day. He might not be handsome, wealthy, or charming in the eyes of the world, but because he’s a true gentleman in the eyes of his lady, he wins her true love.
I hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as I enjoyed writing them!
Author
Bio:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes'
bestsellers include The Heir,
The Soldier, Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal, Lady Sophie's Christmas Wish and Lady Eve's Indiscretion.
Her Regency romances have received extensive praise, including starred reviews
from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Grace is branching out
into short stories and Scotland-set Victorian romance with Sourcebooks. She is
a practicing family law attorney and lives in rural Maryland.
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