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"Tender and touching... Readers seeking a sweet, sensitive romance will savor this tale " - RT Book Reviews
"Burrowes portrays all her characters and their depth and growth with realistic detail and insights. She also deftly blends romance with serious issues to create a compelling balance." - Booklist
"Burrowes portrays all her characters and their depth and growth with realistic detail and insights. She also deftly blends romance with serious issues to create a compelling balance." - Booklist
About the Author
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. The Heir was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2010, The Soldier was a PW Best Spring Romance of 2011, Lady Sophie's Christmas Wish won Best Historical Romance of the Year in 2011 from RT Reviewers' Choice Awards, Lady Louisa's Christmas Knight was a Library Journal Best Book of 2012, and The Bridegroom Wore Plaid was a PW Best Book of 2012. 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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Grace Burrowes started writing as an antidote to empty nest and soon found it an antidote to life in general. She is the sixth out of seven children, raised in the rural surrounds of central Pennsylvania. Early in life she spent a lot of time reading romance novels and practicing the piano. Her first career was as a technical writer and editor in the Washington, DC, area, a busy job that nonetheless left enough time to read a lot of romance novels.
It also left enough time to grab a law degree through an evening program, produce Beloved Offspring (only one, but she is a lion), and eventually move to the lovely Maryland countryside.
While reading yet still more romance novels, Grace opened her own law practice, acquired a master's degree in Conflict Transformation (she had a teenage daughter by then) and started thinking about writing.... romance novels. This aim was realized when Beloved Offspring struck out into the Big World a few years ago. ("Mom, why doesn't anybody tell you being a grown-up is hard?")
Grace eventually got up the courage to start pitching her manuscripts to agents and editors. The query letter that resulted in "the call" started out: "I am the buffoon in the bar at the RWA retreat who could not keep her heroines straight, could not look you in the eye, and could not stop blushing--and if that doesn't narrow down the possibilities, your job is even harder than I thought." (The dear lady bought the book anyway.)
To contact Grace, email her at graceburrowes@yahoo.com.
It also left enough time to grab a law degree through an evening program, produce Beloved Offspring (only one, but she is a lion), and eventually move to the lovely Maryland countryside.
While reading yet still more romance novels, Grace opened her own law practice, acquired a master's degree in Conflict Transformation (she had a teenage daughter by then) and started thinking about writing.... romance novels. This aim was realized when Beloved Offspring struck out into the Big World a few years ago. ("Mom, why doesn't anybody tell you being a grown-up is hard?")
Grace eventually got up the courage to start pitching her manuscripts to agents and editors. The query letter that resulted in "the call" started out: "I am the buffoon in the bar at the RWA retreat who could not keep her heroines straight, could not look you in the eye, and could not stop blushing--and if that doesn't narrow down the possibilities, your job is even harder than I thought." (The dear lady bought the book anyway.)
To contact Grace, email her at graceburrowes@yahoo.com.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Danker
on September 4, 2014
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Thanks Sandy Milan and lark for your reviews. I'm a sucker for stories about re-uniting couples and a fan of most of Burrowes' work, but some recent ones had left me cold, so I haven't read any of the titles in this series. Your reviews tempted me to rethink my position and to buy it, despite wariness about the underlying theme, which is often depicted appallingly in romance-land.
Of course, I expected Burrowes to do much better and she does.
The villain is nauseatingly cruel, predatory, self-justifying and Machiavellian - in other words, highly credible. The misery of the past is depicted carefully and sensitively, while the terror of what may happen in the present relentlessly escalates in tension.
The left-alone wife, Brenna, is the absolute star of this story. Her life has been one long series of betrayals and abandonments. Despite this, she remains loving, ethical, courageous and unbelievably forgiving. Yes, unbelievingly forgiving - especially towards Michael, the husband who supposedly loved her, but refused to listen to her sobbing pleas to be taken with him, instead leaving behind a 16 year old bride on her wedding night, to face the humiliation of being untouched, publicly derided as unwanted, abandoned by his mother and sisters, expected to take over the running of the household, unprotected by his careless and drunken father, emotionally abused by the perpetrator and condemned without cause by his censorious and bitter tenants.
Michael may whinge about how lonely he has been in the past decade, but he chose his path and he well expresses the heady obsession with danger which provided the regular excitement which countered that loneliness.Read more ›
Thanks Sandy Milan and lark for your reviews. I'm a sucker for stories about re-uniting couples and a fan of most of Burrowes' work, but some recent ones had left me cold, so I haven't read any of the titles in this series. Your reviews tempted me to rethink my position and to buy it, despite wariness about the underlying theme, which is often depicted appallingly in romance-land.
Of course, I expected Burrowes to do much better and she does.
The villain is nauseatingly cruel, predatory, self-justifying and Machiavellian - in other words, highly credible. The misery of the past is depicted carefully and sensitively, while the terror of what may happen in the present relentlessly escalates in tension.
The left-alone wife, Brenna, is the absolute star of this story. Her life has been one long series of betrayals and abandonments. Despite this, she remains loving, ethical, courageous and unbelievably forgiving. Yes, unbelievingly forgiving - especially towards Michael, the husband who supposedly loved her, but refused to listen to her sobbing pleas to be taken with him, instead leaving behind a 16 year old bride on her wedding night, to face the humiliation of being untouched, publicly derided as unwanted, abandoned by his mother and sisters, expected to take over the running of the household, unprotected by his careless and drunken father, emotionally abused by the perpetrator and condemned without cause by his censorious and bitter tenants.
Michael may whinge about how lonely he has been in the past decade, but he chose his path and he well expresses the heady obsession with danger which provided the regular excitement which countered that loneliness.Read more ›
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By
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on September 11, 2014
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Taking this book by itself, it is a decent book, with a difficult topic as the heroine's emotional burden. That being said, I have read almost all of Grace Burrowes's books. She has been a go-to author for me. However, I can't help but notice that throughout her "Lords" series and this new series as well, the tone of her books never changes. The dialogue is almost exactly the same in its tenor throughout. Every hero & heroine refers to the other by her/his first and last name, or first and middle name. "The time for waiting might already be past, Michael Brodie." "I love you, too, Brenna Maureen MacLogan Brodie." This is constant throughout, and again, not just this book. Additionally, the male characters have no discernible flaws. They are impeccably patient, understanding, loving, loyal and kind men, who demonstrate keen sympathy for a women's menses. I almost wonder if the author has gotten flack about that, because this particular book is the first in a while that did not involve the man raising the topic (kindly, gently, of course) of a women's menses. For the love. Anyway - the dialogue is both stilted and formal, and involves people referring to themselves as "One," as in "One doesn't generally wait two years to come home," "One hopes for a warm welcome," etc. It's annoying after about 20 books. Overall, I think Grace Burrowes has interesting plot lines, but I could not pick her characters out of a personality line-up.
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on September 2, 2014
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Disclosure: I received this review copy for the release day event. Thank you to Grace Burrowes and Sourcebooks for the opportunity. Yes, this is an honest review.
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As I was reading The Laird, I imagined Odysseus at the end of his travels and Penelope was waiting faithfully for him. Is that the end of the story?
For Grace Burrowes's Michael and Brenna, the homecoming is only the beginning of the story. Michael's been away at war for a number of years, and, when the war ended, he stayed two years more in London, without sending word to his wife about his welfare or whereabouts. Now he is home, and, to Michael's credit, he really isn't expecting much in terms of a welcome.
"Brenna is entitled to be exceedingly vexed with me. I was gone too long, I didn't write enough, and I should be made to pay in the coin of her choosing for as long as she pleases."
"Damn right. With interest."
- loc 1618
The word that came to mind when I sat down to write this review is "masterful" -- and it's a word that I've used only twice before in almost 3 years of blogging, but this is one of those books and Grace Burrowes is one of those authors that merit this adjective. Here's why:
The story could easily be a highly dramatic homecoming story with tearful confrontations and the like, but Grace Burrowes takes a very contained approach to the story. There are no big scenes and no soap-opera moments. It all simmers underneath the surface. I have to give Brenna credit for being such a heroic heroine.Read more ›
* * *
As I was reading The Laird, I imagined Odysseus at the end of his travels and Penelope was waiting faithfully for him. Is that the end of the story?
For Grace Burrowes's Michael and Brenna, the homecoming is only the beginning of the story. Michael's been away at war for a number of years, and, when the war ended, he stayed two years more in London, without sending word to his wife about his welfare or whereabouts. Now he is home, and, to Michael's credit, he really isn't expecting much in terms of a welcome.
"Brenna is entitled to be exceedingly vexed with me. I was gone too long, I didn't write enough, and I should be made to pay in the coin of her choosing for as long as she pleases."
"Damn right. With interest."
- loc 1618
The word that came to mind when I sat down to write this review is "masterful" -- and it's a word that I've used only twice before in almost 3 years of blogging, but this is one of those books and Grace Burrowes is one of those authors that merit this adjective. Here's why:
The story could easily be a highly dramatic homecoming story with tearful confrontations and the like, but Grace Burrowes takes a very contained approach to the story. There are no big scenes and no soap-opera moments. It all simmers underneath the surface. I have to give Brenna credit for being such a heroic heroine.Read more ›
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Sandy Milan
on September 3, 2014
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I'm going to post an honest review with spoilers for those readers, who like me, have had issues with some of Ms Burrowes other books. A friend recommended this Captive Hearts series to me when I was seriously disillusioned with the author and had vowed not to read any more of her work. I'm glad I took a chance because I've loved these books, in fact I'd go as far as to say it's my favourite series of hers. I'm not sure where I picked up the idea that there would be a love triangle in this book but there isn't. Basically we know from the other 2 books (this can be read as a stand alone though) that the H has been away from his home in Scotland for 9 years. We also know that he left a wife behind to manage his castle. In his absence she did what she could but had problems with the H's uncle and his management of the tenants. Some of the clan hold an incident that happened 2 years after the H left, against her even though it wasn't her fault at all. The h has not had an easy time of it whilst the H was away and she also doesn't understand why he didn't come home for 2 years after the war ended. The story starts when the H comes home. I loved the relationship between the H and h and this author did what she does best by developing their story slowly throughout the book. I loved the honour of both characters. It was a beautiful love story.
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I feel I must say there was child abuse in this book because I know some readers are particularly sensitive about this topic. The author does a great job of handling the topic in my opinion. It was real but she didn't 'kill' us with the gory details.
I deducted half a star because I did put the book down from time to time as it dragged in some places.
+++Spoilers+++
I feel I must say there was child abuse in this book because I know some readers are particularly sensitive about this topic. The author does a great job of handling the topic in my opinion. It was real but she didn't 'kill' us with the gory details.
I deducted half a star because I did put the book down from time to time as it dragged in some places.
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