The Wicked Rebel

Name: The Wicked Rebel
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Mary Lancaster
ISBN: 9781977341419

Author: Mary Lancaster

Series: Blackhaven Brides #3

Narrator: Cat Gould

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/02/2019

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

At eight-and-twenty, Lady Arabella Niven is gentle, sickly, and firmly on the shelf. Having disobliged her father by refusing her last chance of marriage, she has been sent in disgrace to Blackhaven with two domineering aunts. Her one wish is to be left alone in a quiet cottage to write books on history.

However, everything changes when she tries to rescue a naked man apparently drowning at sea. Thus begins an odd, fun friendship that quickly becomes passionate. For Captain Alban, the hero with a shady past, is rebellious and unconventional by nature.

Marriage between such a man and a duke's daughter is inconceivable, and yet Alban's feelings for her drive him to face his past in order to create a new future that would be unendurable without her.

Oppressive family, neglected children, fortune hunters, past loves, and old crimes all contrive to keep the pair apart. But when danger threatens Alban, it is the duke's gentle daughter who rides to his rescue.

About Mary Lancaster

Mary Lancaster lives in Scotland with her husband, three mostly grown-up kids, and a small, crazy dog.

Her first literary love was historical fiction, a genre which she relishes mixing up with romance and adventure in her own writing. Several of her novels feature actual historical characters as diverse as Hungarian revolutionaries, medieval English outlaws, and a family of eternally rebellious royal Scots. To say nothing of Vlad the Impaler.

She writes light, fun Regency romances: the Imperial Season series set at the Congress of Vienna and the popular Blackhaven Brides series, which is set in a fashionable English spa town frequented by the great and the bad of Regency society.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Teresa on January 20, 2019

Really, really enjoyed this book. It started off as a light romance and then continued on to include intrigue, mystery, tension and some light comedy. The last chapters reminded me of a Georgette Heyer novel as all the characters were gathered in the one place for the finale. I liked Arabella a lot,......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on October 21, 2017

Blackhaven is swiftly replacing Bath as the spa town of choice for me these days! Mary Lancaster has once again written a richly descriptive story that engages the senses and allows her readers to immerse themselves in her world. Lady Arabella Niven just wants what every 28-year old spinster by choi......more

Goodreads review by Mojca on September 25, 2018

Lady Arabella Niven, the youngest daughter of the Duke of Kilburn, is exiled into Blackhaven for not accepting the man her father had chosen for her. One day she's taking a boat ride alongside the shore, when she goes to the rescue of a supposedly drowning man. Yet Captain Alban is far from drowning......more

Goodreads review by L on October 21, 2017

Loved the book- this series is wonderful! Bella and Alban, both having suffered in different measures as a result of family, meet in the village of Blackhaven. Oh what a meeting it is too! These are two people with interesting pasts who are each looking at lonely boring futures until their fateful in......more

Goodreads review by Petula on July 14, 2018

Lady Arabella Niven often struggles for breath, but never more so than when her family are pressuring her. Having a desperate need for air she takes a rowing boat out on the harbour. It's not only peace and quiet she finds out there on the water. Captain Alban is a " free trader" with a reputation i......more