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From New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh come two classic tales of love turned dangerous, set amid the splendor of Regency England—a time rife with passion, betrayal, and intrigue.
DARK ANGEL
Jennifer Winwood has been engaged for five years to a man she hardly knows but believes to be honorable and good: Lord Lionel Kersey. Suddenly, she becomes the quarry of London’s most notorious womanizer, Gabriel Fisher, the Earl of Thornhill. Jennifer has no idea that she is just a pawn in the long-simmering feud between these two headstrong, irresistible men—or that she will become a prize more valuable than revenge.
LORD CAREW’S BRIDE
Jennifer’s cousin Samantha Newman is smarting after she too is toyed with by Lord Kersey. In the midst of her heartbreak, she seeks solace from her new friend, the disabled gardener Hartley Wade. If only she knew that Hartley is secretly Lord Carew, and that he hides more than extraordinary wealth: a passionate secret held deep in his heart that only her love can reveal.
- Sales Rank: #569559 in Books
- Brand: Dell
- Published on: 2010-02-23
- Released on: 2010-02-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.87" h x 1.02" w x 4.16" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 624 pages
- Great product!
About the Author
Mary Balogh is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Slightly novels: Slightly Married, Slightly Wicked, Slightly Scandalous, Slightly Tempted, Slightly Sinful, and Slightly Dangerous, as well as the romances No Man's Mistress, More than a Mistress, and One Night for Love. She is also the author of Simply Love, Simply Unforgettable, Simply Magic, and Simply Perfect, her dazzling quartet of novels set at Miss Martin's School for Girls. A former teacher herself, she grew up in Wales and now lives in Canada.
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Chapter One
London was somewhat overwhelming to the two young ladies who entered it in an imposing traveling carriage late one April afternoon. Instead of talking and exclaiming over it as they might have been expected to do considering the fact that they had chattered almost without ceasing during the long journey from Gloucestershire, they gazed in wonder and awe through opposite windows as the crowded, shabby, sometimes squalid streets of the outskirts gradually gave place to the elegant splendor that was Mayfair.
“Oh,” one of them breathed on a sigh, breaking a long silence, “here we are at last, Jenny. At last! And suddenly I feel very small and very insignificant and very . . .” She sighed again.
“Frightened?” the other young lady suggested. She continued to gaze outward.
“Oh, Jenny,” Miss Samantha Newman said, turning her head from the window at last to look at her companion, “it is all very well for you to be so calm and complacent. You have Lord Kersey waiting here to sweep you off your feet. Imagine, if you will, what it must be like to have no one. What if every gentleman in town takes one look at me and grimaces in distaste? What if I am a total wallflower at my very first ball? What if . . .” She stopped in some indignation when the other young lady laughed merrily, and then she joined in reluctantly. “Well, it could happen, you know. It could!”
“And pigs might fly south for the winter,” the Honorable Miss Jennifer Winwood said quite unsympathetically. “One has only to remember how all the gentlemen at home tread all over each other’s toes in their haste to be first at your side at the local assemblies.”
Samantha wrinkled her nose and laughed again. “But this is London,” she said, “not the country.”
“And so the crushed-toe malady is about to spread to London,” Jennifer said, looking in affectionate envy, as she frequently did, at her cousin’s perfect beauty—short and shining blond curls, large blue eyes framed by long lashes darker than her hair, delicate porcelain complexion saved from even the remotest danger of insipidity by the natural blush of color in her cheeks. And Sam was small without being diminutive and well-shaped without being either voluptuous or its opposite. Jennifer often regretted her own more vivid—and less ladylike—self. Gentlemen admired her dark red hair, which she had never been able to bear to have cut even when short hair became fashionable, and her dark eyes and her long legs and generous figure. But she often had the uncomfortable notion that she looked more like an actress or courtesan—not that she had ever seen either—than a lady. She longed to look and be the perfect lady. And she never really craved gentlemen’s admiration.
Except Lord Kersey’s—Lionel’s. She had never spoken his name aloud to anyone, though she sometimes whispered it to herself, and in her heart and her dreams he was Lionel. He was going to be her husband. Soon. Before the Season was out. He was going to make his formal offer within the next few days or weeks and then after her presentation at court and her come-out ball their wedding was to be arranged. It was to be at St. George’s in Hanover Square. After that she would have to be presented at court all over again as a married lady.
Soon. Very soon now. It had been such a long wait. Five endless years.
“Oh, Jenny, this must be it.” The carriage had turned sharply into a large and elegant square and was slowing outside one of its mansions. “This must be Berkeley Square.”
They had indeed reached their destination. The double front doors were opened wide even as they watched and liveried servants spilled forth. Others jumped down from the baggage coach that had followed closely behind their traveling carriage throughout the journey. One of them lifted two maidservants down while the coachman himself was handling the young ladies down the steps of their carriage. It seemed a great deal of fuss and bustle for the arrival of two rather insignificant persons, Jennifer thought in some amusement. She had spent all her twenty years in the relative informality of country living.
But she was very willing to adapt. Soon she would be a married lady, the Viscountess Kersey, and would be lady of her own London home and country estate. It was a heady thought for someone who was only just now arriving in London for the first time. She was so very old to be doing that, so very old not to be officially out. But two years ago when she was eighteen and her come-out was planned and also the engagement and marriage that had been arranged three years before that by her papa and the Earl of Rushford, Viscount Kersey’s father, the viscount had been detained in the north of England by the severe illness of an uncle. Jennifer had shed many a tear that spring and summer, not so much at the lost Season as at the delay in her marriage. She had seen Lord Kersey so few times. And then last year disaster had struck again in the form of the death of her grandmother in January. There had been no question of either a Season or a wedding.
And so here she was, arriving in London for the first time at the advanced age of twenty. The only consolation was that her cousin Samantha, who had been living with them for four years, since the passing of her own parents, was now eighteen and able to come out at the same time as Jennifer. It would be good to have company and a confidante. And a bridesmaid at her wedding.
It had seemed an eternity, Jennifer thought, stopping a moment to gaze up at her father’s London house. She had not even seen Lord Kersey for over a year and even then only very briefly and formally in the presence of others at various Christmas parties and assemblies. She had dreamed of him every night since and had daydreamed about him every day. She had loved him passionately and singlemindedly for five years. Soon dreams would be reality.
Her father’s butler bowed to them with stiff deference from the doorway and conducted them to the library, where Jennifer’s father, Viscount Nordal, was awaiting them, standing formally before the desk, his hands clasped behind his back. He would, of course, have heard the commotion of their arrival, but it would have been out of character for Papa to have come out to meet them.
Samantha rushed toward him so that he was forced to bring his arms forward to hug her. “Uncle Gerald!” she exclaimed. “We have been speechless with the splendor of all we have seen. Have we not, Jenny? All we could do was peer out of the carriage windows and gawk with hanging jaws. Was it not so, Jenny? How lovely it is to see you again. Are you well?”
“I gather the speechlessness was not a permanent affliction,” he said with a rare sally into humor. He turned from her to hug his daughter. “Yes, quite well, I thank you, Samantha. It is a relief to know you have both arrived safely. I have been wondering if I should have come for you myself. It does not do for young ladies to travel alone.”
“Alone?” Samantha chuckled. “We had a veritable army with us, Uncle. Any highwayman would have taken one look and decided in despair that it would be certain suicide to risk an attack. A pity. I have always dreamed of being borne off by a handsome highwayman.” She laughed lightly to dispel her uncle’s frown.
“Well,” he said, looking closely at both of them, “you will do. You both look healthy and pretty enough. A trifle rustic, of course. I have a modiste coming here tomorrow morning. Agatha arranged it. She has come to stay and take charge of all the faradiddle of your presentations and the rest of it. You are to mind her. She will know what is what so that you are both suitably decked out for the Season and so that you will both know how to go on.”
Jennifer and Samantha exchanged rueful smiles.
“Well,” Lord Nordal said dismissively, “you will be tired after your journey, I daresay, and will be glad to rest for a while.”
“Aunt Agatha!” Samantha said a short while later as she and Jennifer were being conducted to their rooms by the housekeeper. “The dragon herself. I always have difficulty understanding how she and Mama could have been sisters. Will we have any enjoyment out of this Season, Jenny?”
“Far more than we would without her,” Jennifer said. “Without Aunt Agatha, who would take us about, Sam, and introduce us to Society? Who would see to it that we receive and accept the proper invitations? And who would see to it that we have partners at the balls we attend and escorts to the theater and opera? Papa? Can you really see Papa so exerting himself?”
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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
One darker, one lighter. Two novels for the price of one!
By Amazon Customer
I enjoyed the novelty of reading two romance novels back to back within the same cover. I liked the idea of the two young cousins at the center of the story and being able to enjoy each one of them. However, I must say the two stories weren't equally enjoyable. "Dark Angel" was a fairly good story- but "Lord Carew's Bride" turned out to be absolutely amazing! Well written Regency romance...
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"Dark Angel" 3 star story-- Jennifer has dreamt of her intended, Lional, for five years. At last she has journeyed to London to wed him and couldn't be happier. Upon arrival, Lional declares his love for her and she for him, and life is bliss. Oh? Or so we think. From the sidelines comes young and darkly handsome Gabriel, a young earl who seems intent to seduce Jennifer away from her intended. But why? And whom is really the rake? It's Lional vs. Gabriel, with some fairly interesting twists and turns.
The novel was OK- I actually loved that Jennifer was presented as a tall and curvy main character. Always refreshing to imagine "real" women in a romance! I liked both the hero and heroine. I guess my major issue was that the story was very boring! It was literally a tale of the courting process that went on in Regency London. There is really very little plot besides that of what I wrote just above. And usually the seduction process is the sideline of a romance, not the only point. The ending seemed forced and somewhat absurd. I was having a hard time believing the motivation of the characters involved. But overall... a satisfying read.
"Lord Carew's Bride" is easily a 5 star story-- I have to say. This was one of the most moving romances I've read in some time. I simply fell in love with Hartley!! So Hartley is ridiculously wealthy, very talented and artistic, very kind and sweet and patient... and crippled! He befriends Samantha Newman when he finds her "trespassing" on his estate. She is not aware that he is the lord of the estate and he doesn't prevent her from assuming he's a gentleman gardener. They strike up an adorable friendship, based on mutual thoughts and ideas and seem to really share a very profound loving experience.
Samantha Newman is literally a doll: blond curls, blue saucer eyes, tiny and delicate... but she has a strong mind. She has chosen not to marry and swears off love due to heartbreak she endured years before. She befriends Hartley knowing that she can "love" him without risk of passion and thus begins this truly adorable tale. You will find yourself championing Hartley as he wins the hearts of everyone around him and heals Samantha. It was a type of "Beauty in the Beast" story, and very well-done indeed. An added bonus on this story was Francis- Samantha's outrageous and fun sidekick friend.
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Compared to Jennifer from the previous tale, Samantha was a far more developed character. Whereas Jennifer's only obsession was getting married to a beautiful man, to be looked at and admired, to be envied because her man was attractive... Samantha desires all the real things in life worth living... a real companion, safety, comfort, laughter, lovemaking, loyalty, mutual interests.... Get a copy of this book- or at least buy the older used version of "Lord Carew's Bride."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Five Stars
By Joyloraine Wilson
Ms Balogh is a winner and never lets down my expectations...read every one...she is not writing fast enough~
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
The Queen of Regency romance.
By OLT
What's so great about Mary Balogh is that she can take a plot that you have read hundreds of times already (if you are a reader addicted to historical romances) and still put her own special stamp on it and make it seem fresh. Her stories are authentic to the era, so you don't feel that you're reading another one of those romances with Jane and Joe dressed up in period costumes, and they are heartfelt. These two stories are from 1994; I did not read them the first time around and am so happy they have been reissued. They are related in that two cousins are the female protagonists, Jennifer in DARK ANGEL and Samantha in LORD CAREW'S BRIDE, and the evil, yet intriguing Lord Kersey is integral to the plot of both stories. My favorite of the two is LORD CAREW'S BRIDE. Who can resist a Beauty and the Beast theme? But both are superior Regency romances, harkening back to the early 1990s when Balogh, Carla Kelly, Nancy Butler, Barbara Metzger, Edith Layton, Patricia Oliver and others reigned supreme.
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