Reviewed by Virginia H.
March 23, 2006
"... a wonderful story of faith and courage..."
A Bride Most Begrudging has romance, adventure, everything a book needs to keep my attention.
Lady Constance Morrow slips away from her maid to say goodbye to her uncle aboard a ship. He's being sent away to be sold as an indentured servant. By ignoring her uncle's warning, she gets herself kidnapped and put into chains. She is soon on her way to America to be sold as a "tobacco bride" to a farmer. The men were sold as workers to work for their freedom, and the women were sold as brides for 120 pounds of tobacco leafage.
Constance ends up on a Virginia tobacco farm. Soon the beautiful redhead has convinced the handsome Drew O'Connor to send word to her father to verify her story of kidnapping. Only it's going to take six to eight months to get a return message. In the meantime, Drew is forced to take her as a wife or release her to another farmer.
Constance insists on a marriage in name only, but can she resist falling in love?
From beginning to end, this book kept my interest. It was such a good book, and I enjoyed every page. The historical detail was accurate and enthralling. I'll gladly recommend this book to my family and friends. Deeanna Gist writes a wonderful story of faith and courage.
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Book Description for A Bride Most Begrudging
Do you believe in love at first fight?
Any ship arriving from England means good news for Virginia colony farmers. The "tobacco brides" would be on board—eligible women seeking a better life in America, bartered for with barrels of tobacco from the fields.
Drew O'Connor isn't stirred by news of a ship full of brides. Still broken-hearted from the loss of his beloved, he only wants a maid to tend his house and care for his young sister.
What he ends up with is a wife—a feisty redhead who claims she is Lady Constance Morrow, daughter of an Earl, brought to America against her will. And she wants to go straight back to England as soon as she can. She hasn't the foggiest notion how to cook, dares to argue with her poor husband, and spends more time working on mathematical equations than housework. What kind of a wife is that? Drew's Christian forbearance is in for some testing.
Headstrong and intelligent, deeply moral but incredibly enticing, Constance turns what was supposed to be a marriage of convenience into something most inconvenient, indeed.
