The Accidental Bride

by Jane Feather

Series: The Brides Trilogy (Book 2)

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Plump, voluptuous, rumpled, romantic Phoebe, sister of Diana, the beautiful,tall, thin, clever and deceased Marchioness of Granville, is ordered by her cold, greedy, miserly father to marry her widowed brother-in-law, Cato. Cato, the father of her best friend Olivia; he's distant, cold, very proper and only interested in politics and the war. One day she looks at him and realizes she has begun to love him.
She seems to be everything of which he disapproves, which makes it difficult to get him to love her back. She gets Olivia into trouble,creates chaos in his ordered manor home, she has neither the talent nor the wish to take over the housekeeping, none of her clothes suit her, hardly surprising, since they were all made for Diana, who was a completely different shape to her.
But Phoebe is made of stern stuff. She continues to go her good-hearted bumbling ways, causing uproar in home and village. As Cato lectures, criticises and eventually begins to become accustomed to her. Finally, when she bumbles herself into danger, he realizes his life would be much less interesting without her in it and begeins to fall in love, to his own surprise. (

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"Jane Feather is an accomplished storyteller...rare and wonderful."
--Daily News of Los Angeles

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Dear Reader,

In my "Brides" trilogy, three unconventional young women vow they will never marry--only to be overtaken by destiny. The Accidental Bride could only be the story of Phoebe, the "awkward" one....

For four years, Cato, the Marquis of Granville, had been just another man--the uninteresting, somewhat intimidating husband of Phoebe's older sister. But then her sister died, and Phoebe seemed a reasonable substitute. Her forced engagement to him should have been quite a cold-blooded arrangement...except that one day Phoebe looked at Granville--really looked at him--and saw what she'd never seen before: he was darkly, breathtakingly attractive.

Once she'd noticed, she couldn't seem to stop noticing, and suddenly Phoebe was disastrously in love. It would be nothing short of torture to be married to Granville, knowing he didn't love her and never would. After all, Phoebe was not the kind of woman men fell in love with--Phoebe with her untidy hair, her rumpled clothes, and her fingers forever ink-stained from the poetry she wrote.

When running away does not solve her problems, Phoebe decides to try something a little different--something that involves a little change in wardrobe, a daring new attitude, and a bit of brazen seduction.

Granville is about to discover that his awkward Phoebe is woman enough even for him....

Warmest wishes,

Jane Feather

P.S. Be sure to watch for Olivia's story, The Least Likely Bride, coming in hardcover in early 2000.

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Dear Reader,

In my "Brides" trilogy, three unconventional young women vow they will never marry--only to be overtaken by destiny. The Accidental Bride could only be the story of Phoebe, the "awkward" one....

For four years, Cato, the Marquis of Granville, had been just another man--the uninteresting, somewhat intimidating husband of Phoebe's older sister. But then her sister died, and Phoebe seemed a reasonable substitute. Her forced engagement to him should have been quite a cold-blooded arrangement...except that one day Phoebe looked at Granville--really looked at him--and saw what she'd never seen before: he was darkly, breathtakingly attractive.

Once she'd noticed, she couldn't seem to stop noticing, and suddenly Phoebe was disastrously in love. It would be nothing short of torture to be married to Granville, knowing he didn't love her and never would. After all, Phoebe was not the kind of woman men fell in love with--Phoebe with her untidy hair, her rumpled clothes, and her fingers forever ink-stained from the poetry she wrote.

When running away does not solve her problems, Phoebe decides to try something a little different--something that involves a little change in wardrobe, a daring new attitude, and a bit of brazen seduction.

Granville is about to discover that his awkward Phoebe is woman enough even for him....

Warmest wishes,

Jane Feather

P.S. Be sure to watch for Olivia's story, The Least Likely Bride, coming in hardcover in early 2000.

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"In my "Brides" trilogy, three unconventional young women vow they will never marry -- only to be overtaken by destiny. The Accidental Bride could only be the story of Phoebe, the "awkward" one ... "-- P. [4] of cover.

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